Hospitals rely on shared workstations, EHR systems, nursing stations, emergency department systems, medication workflows, diagnostic applications, registration kiosks, and clinical systems to support continuous patient care across departments such as emergency medicine, intensive care units (ICU), cardiology, oncology, radiology, orthopedics, surgery, labor and delivery, pharmacy, rehabilitation, behavioral health, outpatient clinics, and specialty care environments. While these environments require fast access and operational continuity, they also create major security, privacy, traceability, and accountability challenges when multiple staff members share systems or credentials.

This white paper explores how hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, critical access hospitals, and multi-site healthcare organizations can secure shared systems with passwordless workstation authentication, badge-tap authentication, workforce identity controls, and named-user accountability without disrupting patient care workflows. The paper also discusses securing access to common hospital EHR and clinical platforms such as Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, Allscripts, NextGen, and athenahealth, along with Citrix, VMware Horizon, Microsoft RDS, and other virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments commonly used across healthcare organizations.

This white paper covers:

• Passwordless workstation authentication for hospitals and health systems across emergency departments, ICU environments, radiology, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, pharmacy, surgery, and specialty care departments
• Badge-based authentication workflows for roaming doctors, nurses, clinicians, and healthcare staff
• Auditability and named-user accountability across shared clinical workstations
• Reducing password sharing and credential exposure in hospital environments
• Supporting HIPAA-aligned authentication and ePHI protection initiatives
• Securing EHR access, Citrix/RDS workflows, nursing stations, emergency departments, and shared clinical workstations
• Deployment flexibility for hospitals, health systems, regional facilities, and distributed care environments

Download the white paper to learn how Credenti helps hospitals modernize workforce identity, strengthen patient privacy protections, and secure shared clinical workstations with passwordless badge-tap authentication designed for high-throughput healthcare environments.