Veridas has made its identity verification integration with Epic software available to health systems, letting hospitals add ID document and selfie checks to MyChart patient accounts and to EpicCare Link access for outside clinicians. Health systems can contract and deploy the integration directly now, ahead of its listing in Epic Connection Hub, the marketplace for products that work with Epic.
For patients using MyChart, Epic’s patient portal, the integration handles remote onboarding, account creation and recovery of locked accounts using a government ID and a selfie. Veridas says the check, run at sign-up, helps protect patient health information from medical identity theft and prevents duplicate patient records.
For EpicCare Link, the portal that gives affiliated community doctors and their staff access to a hospital’s records, the integration lets those users verify their identity in seconds before getting access. Veridas said the integration is fully built, so hospitals can embed it in existing clinical and administrative workflows without custom IT work.
“Hospital IT leaders are under immense pressure to tighten security without adding complexity or overburdening their teams,” said David Stauffer, Veridas’ director of North America. “Because our integration is fully built and ready to deploy, healthcare systems can implement Veridas directly into their Epic environments today.”
Veridas develops its own biometric engines and holds iBeta presentation attack detection certification under ISO/IEC 30107-3, covering passive and active liveness, as well as high-level certification under CEN/TS 18099, a European specification for detecting injection attacks, in which manipulated images or video are fed directly into the verification process. The company cites a fifth-place ranking in a 2026 NIST evaluation and says it complies with privacy laws including HIPAA, Illinois’ BIPA and California’s CCPA.
Veridas was founded in 2017 as a joint venture with BBVA and serves more than 350 clients across 25 countries in healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and public administration. Earlier this month it completed its merger with Fourthline.
Veridas cited Department of Health and Human Services figures showing more than 725 major healthcare data breaches in 2024, along with rules such as TEFCA, the national framework for exchanging health records, that require greater data portability, as reasons health systems are under pressure to secure digital access.
Sources: EIN Presswire
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
