Healthcare Identity
Secure identity for patients and providers
Secure patient identity verification and healthcare provider credential management. Streamline provider credentialing, verify prescribing authority, and confirm insurance eligibility with privacy-preserving verifiable credentials.
Key Features
Patient Identity Verification
Verify patient identity at the point of care using verifiable credentials issued by provincial health ministries or trusted identity providers, reducing medical identity fraud and duplicate records.
Provider Credentialing
Hospitals, clinics, and health authorities can instantly verify a provider's medical licence, specialty certifications, and privileges through digitally signed credentials issued by regulatory colleges.
Prescription Authorization
Confirm prescribing authority in real time by verifying a provider's credential against the issuing regulatory body, reducing prescription fraud and streamlining pharmacy workflows.
Insurance Eligibility Confirmation
Enable patients to present verifiable insurance credentials at registration, allowing providers to confirm coverage and eligibility instantly without manual calls to insurers.
Use Cases
- Patient identity verification at point of care
- Healthcare provider credentialing and privileging
- Prescription authorization verification
- Insurance eligibility and coverage confirmation
- Clinical trial participant identity management
- Cross-provincial health credential portability
Healthcare organizations across Canada manage some of the most sensitive identity relationships in the economy. A single misidentified patient can lead to adverse clinical outcomes, and a provider with lapsed credentials poses both safety and liability risks. BaseID delivers a verifiable credential infrastructure purpose-built for the healthcare sector, enabling hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and health authorities to verify identity claims with cryptographic certainty rather than paper-based trust.
Provincial regulatory colleges can issue digital credentials attesting to a physician’s licence, specialty, and prescribing authority. When that physician presents their credential at a new hospital or pharmacy, the verifier confirms its validity in seconds through standard OID4VP flows, without waiting for faxed letters or manual database lookups. For patients, BaseID enables health ministries to issue verifiable health cards that can be presented at any point of care, reducing medical identity fraud and eliminating the administrative burden of manual eligibility checks.
Privacy is non-negotiable in healthcare, and BaseID’s selective disclosure capabilities ensure that only the minimum necessary information is shared in each interaction. A pharmacy verifying prescribing authority never sees the provider’s home address. A clinical trial confirming participant eligibility never receives a full medical history. Built in Rust for the performance and safety that healthcare systems demand, BaseID integrates with existing electronic health record platforms and provincial health information exchanges to deliver verifiable identity without disrupting clinical workflows.
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