On July 30th, the White House hosted a landmark event presented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), launching the Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative: a public‑private collaboration backed by over 60 organizations spanning major tech firms, payers, and provider platforms. CLEAR is proud to join this initiative to help achieve a unified goal: to make healthcare more modern, patient-centric, and digitally connected. This shared vision underscores a commitment to voluntary, opt-in patient participation and eliminating redundant paperwork, or “killing the clipboard”–a key objective.
At the center of this transformation is CLEAR1: a multi-layered identity platform that creates a single, reusable identity for patients and providers alike. Once verified with CLEAR1, individuals can use their identity across participating systems and services, eliminating redundant verification steps and enabling faster, more connected care.
"We are excited that identity services like CLEAR are making it possible for patients and providers to use verified, secure identity as part of CMS's Health Tech Ecosystem," said Amy Gleason, Acting Administrator for the U.S. DOGE Service and Strategic Advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. "Checking in at the doctor's office should be the same as boarding a flight. Patients should be able to scan a QR code to instantly and safely share their identity, insurance, and medical history."
At its core, this initiative aims to solve one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, interoperability–the ability for systems, tools, and organizations to securely exchange and use information across the care continuum. In practical terms, this means reducing paperwork, enabling better data sharing, and removing the friction that slows down patient care.
Why Identity Assurance Matters for Healthcare
Interoperability can’t happen without trusted, reusable identity. Today, healthcare suffers from fragmented identity practices; patients must verify themselves repeatedly, while providers and payers lack a unified way to authenticate individuals. This slows down care, drives up costs, and creates security vulnerabilities. As healthcare shifts toward digital-first care models, reusable identity assurance at scale is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a clinical and operational imperative.
Identity Assurance Level 2 (IAL2) and Authentication Assurance Level 2 (AAL2) define the technical bar for high-confidence identity verification (IAL2) and authentication (AAL2), offering a consistent, privacy-preserving framework for both patients and providers.
The result? Reduced fraud, better care coordination, faster access to services, and the foundation of trust needed to enable data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem. In a highly-regulated, high-risk industry such as healthcare, IAL2 and AAL2 deliver the confidence needed to share sensitive information and orchestrate services across systems. These standards enable a shared security baseline to power interoperability and trust across payers, providers, platforms, and patients–enabling them to collaborate with confidence.
The value is both operational and strategic. Health organizations reduce administrative burden and identity-related risk, while patients gain control over how and where their information is shared. Care becomes more efficient, more connected, and more personal.
CLEAR is Powering the Identity Layer for Healthcare
As an IAL2/AAL2-compliant identity layer, CLEAR1 brings the rigor of NIST standards to healthcare, ensuring that every interaction is built on a foundation of security, privacy, and trust. CLEAR’s role in the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem is to bring our proven identity platform to healthcare, creating a consistent, secure identity layer that follows the patient wherever they go.
In healthcare, CLEAR1 enables:
- Digital check-in and patient intake: Seamlessly verify identity at the point of care, reducing paperwork and delays.
- Provider onboarding and ongoing verification: Accelerate time-to-care by authenticating clinicians quickly and securely.
- Access to health records: Enable fast, secure retrieval of data across systems.
Surescripts partnered with CLEAR to build an advanced identity framework that meets NIST IAL2 standards so that they could advance security without compromising care. CEO of Surescripts, Frank Harvey said, “Our work with CLEAR has meaningfully improved the speed and reliability of provider identity verification across our network. It’s a powerful example of how focused collaboration can drive real progress… demonstrating how innovators across healthcare are advancing interoperability to reduce administrative burden and refocus clinicians’ time where it matters most: patient care.”
Additionally, our partnership with b.well brings IAL2‑compliant identity verification to their FHIR‑based consumer health platform. This has resulted in empowering patients to access health data, schedule care, and share records across providers using one single sign‑on instead of multiple logins. “Identity is foundational to creating the connected, consumer-first healthcare experience that people expect,” said Kristen Valdes, CEO and Founder of b.well. “Our partnership with CLEAR brings a trusted, IAL2-compliant identity layer into that experience, giving patients and caregivers a seamless, unified way to access and share their health information across providers and platforms.”
Statement from CLEAR GM Head of Healthcare, David Bardan: “We envision a future where the clipboard is obsolete, replaced by instant, secure biometric verification that streamlines every touchpoint from check-in to accessing medical records. Our ongoing collaborations with leading health systems and integrations with national platforms are already demonstrating tangible improvements in efficiency, security, and patient satisfaction. We are focused on reducing the burden of administration, cutting down on costly fraud, and most importantly, empowering both patients and providers with a more efficient, secure, and personalized healthcare journey for all.”
In an industry where trust is earned and breaches are costly, CLEAR1 offers the security healthcare needs, and the simplicity patients deserve. As CMS-aligned networks roll out in 2026, CLEAR is proud to help power the infrastructure behind a more modern, secure, and patient-centered healthcare system.
On July 30th, the White House hosted a landmark event presented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), launching the Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative: a public‑private collaboration backed by over 60 organizations spanning major tech firms, payers, and provider platforms. CLEAR is proud to join this initiative to help achieve a unified goal: to make healthcare more modern, patient-centric, and digitally connected. This shared vision underscores a commitment to voluntary, opt-in patient participation and eliminating redundant paperwork, or “killing the clipboard”–a key objective.
At the center of this transformation is CLEAR1: a multi-layered identity platform that creates a single, reusable identity for patients and providers alike. Once verified with CLEAR1, individuals can use their identity across participating systems and services, eliminating redundant verification steps and enabling faster, more connected care.
"We are excited that identity services like CLEAR are making it possible for patients and providers to use verified, secure identity as part of CMS's Health Tech Ecosystem," said Amy Gleason, Acting Administrator for the U.S. DOGE Service and Strategic Advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. "Checking in at the doctor's office should be the same as boarding a flight. Patients should be able to scan a QR code to instantly and safely share their identity, insurance, and medical history."
At its core, this initiative aims to solve one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, interoperability–the ability for systems, tools, and organizations to securely exchange and use information across the care continuum. In practical terms, this means reducing paperwork, enabling better data sharing, and removing the friction that slows down patient care.
Why Identity Assurance Matters for Healthcare
Interoperability can’t happen without trusted, reusable identity. Today, healthcare suffers from fragmented identity practices; patients must verify themselves repeatedly, while providers and payers lack a unified way to authenticate individuals. This slows down care, drives up costs, and creates security vulnerabilities. As healthcare shifts toward digital-first care models, reusable identity assurance at scale is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a clinical and operational imperative.
Identity Assurance Level 2 (IAL2) and Authentication Assurance Level 2 (AAL2) define the technical bar for high-confidence identity verification (IAL2) and authentication (AAL2), offering a consistent, privacy-preserving framework for both patients and providers.
The result? Reduced fraud, better care coordination, faster access to services, and the foundation of trust needed to enable data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem. In a highly-regulated, high-risk industry such as healthcare, IAL2 and AAL2 deliver the confidence needed to share sensitive information and orchestrate services across systems. These standards enable a shared security baseline to power interoperability and trust across payers, providers, platforms, and patients–enabling them to collaborate with confidence.
The value is both operational and strategic. Health organizations reduce administrative burden and identity-related risk, while patients gain control over how and where their information is shared. Care becomes more efficient, more connected, and more personal.
CLEAR is Powering the Identity Layer for Healthcare
As an IAL2/AAL2-compliant identity layer, CLEAR1 brings the rigor of NIST standards to healthcare, ensuring that every interaction is built on a foundation of security, privacy, and trust. CLEAR’s role in the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem is to bring our proven identity platform to healthcare, creating a consistent, secure identity layer that follows the patient wherever they go.
In healthcare, CLEAR1 enables:
- Digital check-in and patient intake: Seamlessly verify identity at the point of care, reducing paperwork and delays.
- Provider onboarding and ongoing verification: Accelerate time-to-care by authenticating clinicians quickly and securely.
- Access to health records: Enable fast, secure retrieval of data across systems.
Surescripts partnered with CLEAR to build an advanced identity framework that meets NIST IAL2 standards so that they could advance security without compromising care. CEO of Surescripts, Frank Harvey said, “Our work with CLEAR has meaningfully improved the speed and reliability of provider identity verification across our network. It’s a powerful example of how focused collaboration can drive real progress… demonstrating how innovators across healthcare are advancing interoperability to reduce administrative burden and refocus clinicians’ time where it matters most: patient care.”
Additionally, our partnership with b.well brings IAL2‑compliant identity verification to their FHIR‑based consumer health platform. This has resulted in empowering patients to access health data, schedule care, and share records across providers using one single sign‑on instead of multiple logins. “Identity is foundational to creating the connected, consumer-first healthcare experience that people expect,” said Kristen Valdes, CEO and Founder of b.well. “Our partnership with CLEAR brings a trusted, IAL2-compliant identity layer into that experience, giving patients and caregivers a seamless, unified way to access and share their health information across providers and platforms.”
Statement from CLEAR GM Head of Healthcare, David Bardan: “We envision a future where the clipboard is obsolete, replaced by instant, secure biometric verification that streamlines every touchpoint from check-in to accessing medical records. Our ongoing collaborations with leading health systems and integrations with national platforms are already demonstrating tangible improvements in efficiency, security, and patient satisfaction. We are focused on reducing the burden of administration, cutting down on costly fraud, and most importantly, empowering both patients and providers with a more efficient, secure, and personalized healthcare journey for all.”
In an industry where trust is earned and breaches are costly, CLEAR1 offers the security healthcare needs, and the simplicity patients deserve. As CMS-aligned networks roll out in 2026, CLEAR is proud to help power the infrastructure behind a more modern, secure, and patient-centered healthcare system.
