Here’s the tech Envision Healthcare uses to manage rapid M&A growth — 5 takeaways

As Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare grows through mergers and acquisitions — with 261 surgery centers and a surgical hospital now under ownership — the organization has adopted identity and access management solutions to streamline operations, HealthTech Magazine reports.

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Here are five takeaways:

1. In 2015, Envision began the switch to a single sign-on strategy for viewing paychecks or shifts to give providers a much easier experience. The company opted to use Okta’s cloud-based single sign-on solution because the company had experience working with providers and success with two-factor authentication.

2. To access applications behind the firewall or in the cloud, users click buttons within Okta to sign in and authenticate themselves.

3. Envision encountered challenges getting clinicians to register and create profiles within Okta, as well as making legacy applications work with the tool.

4. Envision primarily relies on Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle as it onboards new team members.

5. Envision initially introduced Okta’s solutions as small pilots. It now aims to adopt the single sign-on solution across its entire portfolio of companies.

“The technologists in our company have been very appreciative because it has very much simplified our work with the applications we interact with every day,” Envision CTO Bryan Ferrel said.

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