Direct Messaging and
FBCA Certificates
Gain the ability to transfer records to federal agencies and fortify
your entire network for Direct messaging exchange.
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What is Direct Messaging for Healthcare?
Direct messaging is the national encryption standard for sending healthcare records over the internet. It allows Health Information Service Providers (HISPs) across the U.S. to exchange patient records securely and mitigate risks that come from transferring records over unprotected channels, like traditional email.
What are FBCA Cross-Signed Certificates?
Any organization exchanging healthcare information with a federal agency must use certificates cross-signed by the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA). All of our FBCA certificates are trusted by federal agencies and guarantee interoperability, allowing you to safely exchange messages.
Increase Identity Assurance
with FBCA or NIST LoA 3 Certificates
Meet compliance standards to correspond with U.S. federal agencies
and gain the ability to issue Electronic Prescriptions of Controlled Substances (EPCS).
Both FBCA and NIST LoA 3 are established standards. Digital signatures in these types of certificates show an end-user that the identity of the individual named in the certificate is verified and is trustworthy. We can help you with multiple levels of assurance, including FBCA Basic, FBCA Medium, and NIST LoA 3.
Available Direct Certificates
Whether you need to a protect an entire environment or a group of patients, DigiCert Direct Certificates meet all a healthcare organization’s needs.
Allows you to secure one endpoint used only for health information exchange and can be a personal inbox, a task, a workflow, a data repository, or a registry. It’s formatted like an email address and bound to a specific Direct Address with the organization in the certificate.
Bound to a domain that is part of a Direct certificate and tied to the organization—not necessarily an individual—exchanging information using Direct. Organization Certificates can be associated with multiple Direct Addresses within an organization.
A Device Certificate allows you to secure a device, like a router, server, or other similar equipment used for transmitting Direct messages. The certificate is bound to the device, as well as to a domain that is part of a Direct Address and tied to an organization exchanging information using Direct.
A Patient Certificate is formatted like an address certificate, is issued by a HISP, and is bound to a specific patient.
DigiCert Direct Cert Portal™
Secure your healthcare endpoints, automate certificate issuance using REST APIs, and enable Direct exchange—all from one cloud-based platform.
Direct Cert Portal allows you to handle every step of the certificate lifecycle and saves time by consolidating certificate tasks such as ordering, issuing, revoking, and reissuing. HISPs and Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) can instantly issue DirectTrust-compliant certificates to their domains, devices, and users, and begin secure healthcare information exchange after validation.
Why Choose Digicert Direct Cert Portal™?
Easy User Management
Assign and manage roles for all users for an ISSO or HCO. Permission levels can be assigned for each user as Administrators, Requestors, or Observers.
Manage Multiple HCOs
Manage as many HCOs and individual providers as you need with just one Direct Cert Portal account.
Direct REST API
Automate the management of your DigiCert Direct Certificates with a customized API using the REST protocol.
Simplified Certificate Management
The Portal streamlines certificate management for the account administrator, giving you more control and insight over every stage of the certificate lifecycle. New certificate requests are also processed in real-time.
Domain Pre-Approvals
New certificate requests can be processed in real-time because of domain pre-approvals. Our support team works 24/7 to make certificate issuance the fastest in the industry.
Comprehensive Healthcare Solutions
From certificates to a management platform, DigiCert offers healthcare providers everything they need to effectively manage and securely transmit healthcare information while complying with today’s stringent standards.
DirectTrust Accredited
As an established Certificate Authority, we are part of the Accredited Trust Community. DigiCert is a member of the DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor Bundle, as well as the DirectTrust Governmental Trust Anchor Bundle. This guarantees interoperability with other fully accredited HISPs. Learn More