Health data startup Retrieve Medical is integrating CLEAR1, the identity verification platform operated by secure identity company CLEAR, into its Retrieve Medical Passport, adding a stronger check on who is requesting access to a patient’s health records.
The Retrieve Medical Passport is a patient-controlled health information platform that lets individuals access, manage, and share their medical records across providers. Its parent, Retrieve Medical Holdings, trades over the counter under RMHI. The company says the CLEAR1 integration is designed to confirm that the person requesting access is the right individual before health information is accessed or connected, to reduce unauthorized access to sensitive records, and to smooth onboarding by letting patients verify through what it calls a trusted and familiar process. CLEAR’s verification is best known from airport security lanes, giving the startup a recognizable front door for health data access.
“Retrieve Medical is committed to simplifying how patients access and manage their medical information,” said Jerry Swon, the company’s chief executive. “By integrating CLEAR1, we are strengthening the foundation of trust and security that is essential to empowering patients and advancing digital healthcare.”
The company frames trusted identity as a prerequisite for the interoperability push reshaping American healthcare, in which records increasingly move between providers, health systems, and national exchange networks. Identity proofing is the front door to that exchange: federal frameworks for sharing patient records require participants to verify who is asking before data flows, and weak verification is both a privacy risk and a vector for medical identity theft.
For CLEAR, the deal extends a deliberate campaign to make CLEAR1 an identity layer well beyond airport security lanes. The company recently integrated CLEAR1 with Amazon Connect to verify callers in contact centers, and it has been converting its consumer scale into enterprise reach, reporting 41 million members as its eGate rollout reached 43 airports. Healthcare has been a strategic focus for the firm, whose verification already appears in patient check-in and health system login flows.
Retrieve Medical did not disclose commercial terms or a deployment timeline for the integration. The company says the addition will support secure exchange of healthcare information across providers, health systems, and healthcare networks while keeping patients in control of their own records, a combination that depends on the identity layer holding up under pressure.
Sources: GlobeNewswire
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
