IdenTrust leverages more than two (2) decades of individual identity proofing experience to make the process easy and affordable for patients. The IdenTrust goal is to eliminate the previous barriers of cost and complexity associated with allowing patients to control their own healthcare data and share it only as needed with healthcare professionals.

Very simply, your healthcare or patient portal provider will:

• Provide a method to collect information from you that allows IdenTrust to complete an automated identity proofing process;
• Request that you provide a secret code generated by IdenTrust and provided directly to you, ensuring that the address assigned and associated certificate is bound to you, the identity proofed patient; and
• Securely protect the certificate associated with your assigned address and ensure health information sent to you and shared by you with healthcare professionals is handled securely.

Depending on your healthcare provider and their implementation, you may be provided a certificate to be stored in your home computer browser or mobile phone, a token with a certificate or even a token or authenticator used to authenticate you and allow use of your certificate for health information exchange. No matter the implementation method, it is important that you do not share your password or authenticator with others.

While this process has often cost as much as $75 to $100 to complete, IdenTrust is able to offer ID proofing starting at far less per year, inclusive of NIST 800-63 LOA3 identity proofing and an IdenTrust DirectTrust Patient Certificate.

Your healthcare provider likely already participates in DirectTrust for communication with other providers. Let them know you are interested in receiving your healthcare information electronically and (if desired) that you would like to share healthcare information with other healthcare providers within the DirectTrust community.