HID is set to present its comprehensive security solutions at the International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition, showcasing how its layered approach to security can aid healthcare institutions.
Their method focuses on protecting patients, staff, and visitors while upgrading obsolete access systems gradually, without disrupting daily hospital activities.
Comprehensive Security for Healthcare
Hospitals, as complex environments, host a variety of individuals including staff, patients, and vendors, each necessitating tailored access levels. Alongside this, they must safeguard health information, medications, and sensitive areas around the clock.
HID launched a cloud Visitor Manager integrating with EHRs to improve visitor controlRather than relying on a single solution, HID proposes an integrated security approach combining physical access control, visitor management, staff authentication, and real-time location services into a cohesive system.
HID recently launched the HID Visitor Manager for Healthcare, a cloud-based tool that interfaces directly with major Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems such as Epic and Oracle Health. The system aims to enhance visitor control throughout medical facilities.
Key Security Enhancements Showcased at IAHSS
During the IAHSS event, HID will demonstrate four vital capabilities that form its security strategy:
- Visitor Access Security: Ensuring knowledge of who is in the facility and their legitimacy is crucial for compliance and safety. The HID Visitor Manager for Healthcare offers a modern check-in process integrated with EHR, incorporating photo capture, ID scanning, watchlist management, and compliance-ready reporting for OSHA, CMS, and HIPAA, all with minimal IT requirements.
- Efficient Credential Management: By facilitating remote issuance, updates, and revocation, HID addresses the administrative load of credential management, enabling staff to navigate the facility seamlessly using HID Mobile Access on smartphones and wearables.
- Real-Time Location Awareness: The HID Healthcare Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) platform provides immediate visibility into the whereabouts of staff, patients, and equipment. This system, which fulfills 69% of RTLS adoption needs, supports various purposes including staff safety, infant security, and asset tracking, enhancing hospital operational efficiency.
- Unified Security Infrastructure: By addressing the challenges posed by fragmented entry points and diverse credential types, HID Signo readers offer broad support for different credential technologies. They integrate smoothly with HID's extensive access control ecosystem, closing security gaps.
With decades of expertise and a team of specialists, HID supports healthcare facilities through every step of their security modernization process.
HID, a worldwide pioneer in trusted identity solutions, will exhibit at the International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition (booth #46), demonstrating how a layered approach to security helps healthcare organizations protect patients, staff and visitors while modernizing fragmented access infrastructure in a phased, affordable and low-risk way that doesn't disrupt daily operations.
Healthcare has layers. So should its security
Hospitals bring together staff, patients, visitors and vendors, each requiring specific levels of access, while simultaneously protecting health information, medications, medical devices and sensitive operational areas on a 24/7/365 basis. No single product solves that. HID's approach to modernizing access control for healthcare is where physical access control, visitor management, staff authentication and real-time location awareness operate as a unified system rather than disconnected point solutions.
Most recently, HID introduced HID Visitor Manager for Healthcare, a cloud-based solution that integrates directly with Epic, Oracle Health and other major Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to strengthen visitor control across hospital facilities.
At IAHSS, HID will showcase four interconnected capabilities that address this approach:
- Securing visitor access: Knowing who is in your facility, where they are and whether they should be there is both a compliance requirement and a patient and staff safety imperative. HID Visitor Manager for Healthcare delivers a modern, configurable check-in process with direct EHR integration, photo capture, ID scanning, watchlist management and audit-ready compliance reporting for OSHA, CMS and HIPAA requirements — all with minimal IT involvement.
- Giving staff back time lost to credential management: Remote issuance, updates and revocation eliminate the need for in-person card management, reducing administrative burden while giving clinical and operational teams a more convenient, secure way to move through the facility. HID Mobile Access delivers this capability through smartphones and wearables already in staff pockets.
- Knowing where people and assets are when it matters most: Worker safety and compliance now drive 69% of RTLS adoption decisions, according to HID's 2026 State of Security and Identity Report. The HID Healthcare Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) platform gives clinical teams instant visibility into the location of staff, patients and assets. From staff safety and infant security to asset tracking, hand hygiene compliance and clinical workflow, it addresses the full range of location-aware needs in a hospital environment.
- Unifying the infrastructure that makes all of it work: Fragmented entry points, mixed credential types and siloed systems are where security gaps form. HID Signo readers support an unparalleled range of credential technologies across cards, fobs and mobile devices, with multi-layered security built in and seamless integration across HID's broader access control ecosystem.
HID brings decades of experience and a dedicated team of healthcare security specialists to support hospitals and health systems at every stage of their security modernization journey.
