Advocate Health Care, One of the Nation’s Leading Health Systems, Chooses Courion for Identity and Access Management

Rapid Time to Value and Integration with Leading EMR and EHR Solutions Played Role in Selection of Courion Provisioning and Governance Solutions

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--()--Courion, a leading provider of intelligent identity and access management (IAM) solutions, today announced that Advocate Health Care, one of the nation's top 5 largest health systems with more than 70,000 users and 250 care sites across Illinois, has selected Courion’s integrated provisioning and governance solutions, including AccountCourier®, Access Request Manager, ComplianceCourier™, RoleCourier® and PasswordCourier®.

Advocate Health Care is the largest integrated health care system in Illinois and one of the Chicagoland area’s largest employers. The health care provider, which has won several awards for quality care, selected Courion after an RFP process and a comparison of competing IAM offerings.

Courion stood out due to its proven track record in healthcare, as well as the company’s degree of specialization and focus in identity and access management. Courion also proved to have the strongest integration with electronic medical records (EMR) applications such as Cerner, GE Centricity and AllScripts EHR.

“We are excited to be working with Courion,” said Gary Horn, Vice President of Technical Services and CTO for Advocate Health Care. “We know that identity management projects are complex and impact nearly every user in the organization. We decided to partner with a specialist who has the experience in working with the unique requirements healthcare organizations such as ours have. We are confident in Courion’s ability to execute on this strategic project.”

Courion provides a comprehensive suite of identity management and access governance solutions that help organizations minimize risk, streamline operations and reduce costs. More than 600 organizations rely on Courion to help them quickly and accurately provide access to users while identifying and minimizing risk. To learn more, call 866.COURION or email info@courion.com.

About Courion

With deep experience and more than 600 customers managing over 10 million identities, Courion is the market leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM), from provisioning to governance to Identity and Access Intelligence (IAI). Courion provides insight from analyzing the big data generated from an organization’s identity and access relationships so users can efficiently and accurately provision, identify and minimize risks, and maintain continuous compliance. As a result, IT costs are reduced and audits expedited. With Courion, you can confidently provide open and compliant access to all while also protecting critical company data and assets from unauthorized access.

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Contacts

Courion Corporation
Martha Collins, 617-905-8551
mcollins@courion.com
or
Brodeur Partners
Michelle Dillon, 603-559-5835
mdillon@brodeur.com

Release Summary

Courion, a leading provider of intelligent identity and access management (IAM) solutions, announced that Advocate Health Care has selected their integrated provisioning and governance solutions.

Contacts

Courion Corporation
Martha Collins, 617-905-8551
mcollins@courion.com
or
Brodeur Partners
Michelle Dillon, 603-559-5835
mdillon@brodeur.com