Emdeon Streamlines IT Provisioning and Compliance with Enterprise-Class Identity Management Solution
 
 

Emdeon Streamlines IT Provisioning and Compliance with Enterprise-Class Identity Management Solution

  • Oracle Customer:  Emdeon
    Location:  Nashville, TN
    Industry:  Professional Services
    Employees:  3,200
    Annual Revenue:  $1 to $5 Billion

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Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers, and patients in the United States healthcare systems. Its products and services integrate and automate key business and administrative functions for healthcare payers and providers throughout the patient lifecycle.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Emdeon

  • “As a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information-exchange solutions, we work to simplify the business of healthcare. Using Oracle identity management technology, we are able to connect information intelligently and improve key administrative processes.” – Greg Pullen, Services Delivery Manager, Emdeon

  • Establish an enterprise-class identity management solution that can work in a disparate IT environment of systems from multiple corporate mergers and acquisitions
  • Ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and the payments card industry (PCI) standards as they relate to protecting data from unauthorized access

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Deployed Oracle Identity Manager across Emdeon’s nine operating systems, making the product the core component of its identity management infrastructure for access provisioning, deprovisioning, and compliance
  • Introduced Oracle Identity Manager as the single point of internal control without the need to change existing business processes—avoiding internal disruption
  • Deployed the solution across approximately 5,000 configurable items (servers, databases, routers, network switches, firewalls) to support 74 business services
  • Worked with Oracle Partner Sena Systems centralize management of more than 300,000 disparate identities internally, facilitating compliance with various healthcare regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, SOX, and PCI standards and freeing the IT team for other priorities
  • Enabled a number of automated compliance activities—including identity verification on a quarterly basis—reducing the time required for compliance management by 75%
  • Reduced total cost of ownership with Oracle’s ability to run on commodity-grade hardware
  • Deployed Oracle Identity Analytics for the ability to perform granular analysis and ensure that the appropriate person verifies an account

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