Thales Helps Availity Modernize Identity Infrastructure with OneWelcome Identity Platform

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 15, 2026--

Thalestoday announced that Availity, one of the largest real-time health information networks in the United States, has selected the Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform to overhaul its identity infrastructure, which underpins billions of healthcare transactions and access for millions of users.

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Availity selected the Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform for its ability to provide a unified, flexible identity foundation capable of supporting customer, partner, and workforce access across a rapidly growing and evolving healthcare ecosystem. The move replaces legacy systems as Availity confronted growing strain on reliability, scalability, and operational complexity, pressures that can directly impact access to critical healthcare services.

Availity connects providers, payers, and technology partners through high-volume digital interactions, where identity is the gateway to everything from eligibility checks to claims processing. As demand surged, limitations in its prior platform increasingly constrained performance and resilience, prompting a shift to a more scalable, unified identity foundation.

“Our mission is to provide a stable, scalable, and secure foundation for identity across our network,” Mike Green, CISO, Availity, said. “As healthcare organizations face growing pressure to support always-on digital services, rising transaction volumes, and increasingly interconnected user environments, we needed to modernize our identity infrastructure to reduce operational complexity, strengthen resilience, and deliver seamless experiences for our customers and partners while preparing for future growth.”

Addressing critical identity challenges
As digital demand accelerated, Availity faced rising demands on the identity systems supporting healthcare operations, where performance, uptime, and seamless access are critical. The company needed a modern CIAM platform that could improve stability, reduce infrastructure complexity, and deliver resilience at enterprise scale across a growing network of users and applications. Thales OneWelcome provides a unified identity foundation designed to evolve alongside changing architectures, user interactions, and business demands.

Enabling a modern identity architecture
The deployment introduces a centralized identity layer designed to orchestrate secure, low-friction access across providers, payers, and partners, replacing fragmented systems with a more cohesive approach to identity. This includes adaptive authentication flows that adjust to user context, a scalable core built to handle high transaction volumes, and integrated consent management to give users greater control over their data. The platform also enables seamless integration across systems and third-party environments, along with granular delegated administration to support complex B2B relationships.

The transition was executed through a structured migration from legacy systems, allowing Availity to modernize its identity infrastructure while maintaining continuity across critical services.

Supporting growth and digital trust
By transitioning to Thales OneWelcome, Availity is positioned to scale securely as transaction volumes and user demand continue to grow, while improving reliability and uptime across mission-critical services. The platform also enables seamless digital experiences for customers and partners, while strengthening security and compliance in a highly regulated industry. As healthcare environments become increasingly automated and AI-driven, the platform provides the flexibility and resilience needed to securely support a growing mix of human and machine-based interactions across high-volume healthcare networks.

“Thales is helping ensure that identity doesn’t become a point of failure in systems where access and uptime are critical. At this scale, even small disruptions can ripple across healthcare operations, which is why organizations are rethinking identity as core infrastructure, not just a security layer,”Danny DeVreeze, Vice President of Identity and Access Management at Thales, said.“As healthcare systems become increasingly digital and interconnected, that shift is essential to maintaining continuity, trust, and performance.”

Identity Fusion, a leading identity and access management (IAM) consultancy that helps organizations modernize and secure complex identity ecosystems, served as Availity’s trusted IAM advisor and implementation partner. Identity Fusion worked closely with Availity and Thales to help guide the migration to the Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform, providing strategic, operational, and architectural expertise throughout the transformation.

“Identity Fusionhas served as a trusted advisor and partner to Availity, supporting one of the nation’s largest and highest-performing healthcare identity ecosystems for nearly a decade,” Bill Nelson, President, Identity Fusion, said. “When Availity selected the Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform to modernize its identity infrastructure, Identity Fusion worked closely with Thales to help guide the transformation, providing deep operational and architectural expertise into an environment that supports billions of healthcare transactions and millions of secure user interactions annually. The collaboration helped ensure the migration was executed with the stability, resilience, and security required for mission-critical healthcare operations while enabling the next generation of scalable digital identity services.”

About Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform
The Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform enables organizations to deliver secure, seamless, and scalable digital identity experiences across customer, partner, and workforce ecosystems. With advanced identity orchestration, extended enterprise access for B2B use cases, integrated consent management, and flexible deployment options, it empowers enterprises to build trusted digital relationships at scale.

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the latest criminal case on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence has remained a sensitive issue.

The Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested a 20-year-old Marine stationed at the Futenma Air Station on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old local woman at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa's capital city, and taking her wallet and backpack in the early hours of Saturday.

Kyodo News agency, citing the police, reported the woman's body was found in her hotel room and she appeared to have been strangled to death.

Police said security camera footage showed the man believed to be the suspect entering the hotel with the victim and coming out alone. An officer arrested the suspect after spotting him walking alone on a street in Naha’s entertainment district late Saturday, Kyodo said.

“The case deals a major shock and adds fear to the Okinawans who have already been forced to live next to U.S. bases,” newly elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja told reporters. “It is absolutely unforgivable and we are outraged.”

“I must say, discipline and troop education are not working at all,” said Koja, referring to the U.S. military’s measures taken in response to past criminal cases.

Some 50,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Japan under a bilateral security pact, about half of them on Okinawa, whose strategic role is seen as increasingly important for the Japan-U.S. military alliance amid growing tensions with China. Japan's southwestern shift in its military focus centers heavily on Okinawa and its nearby islands.

Okinawans have long complained about noise, pollution and crime related to U.S. bases, with crimes involving U.S. service members on Okinawa complicating ties between Japan’s central government and the Okinawa administration. The latest case comes as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet pushes to further fortify its Japanese military presence on Okinawa and work more closely with the U.S. military.

“The occurrence of the heinous crime is extremely regrettable,” Takaichi said in her message on X. She said her government has strongly protested to the U.S. side and demanded maximum cooperation with the Japanese authorities in the investigation, as well as tougher discipline for U.S. service members and preventive measures.

Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi summoned U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass to his office and conveyed “outrage," the ministry said in a statement.

Glass, on X, expressed condolences to the victim's family, adding that the United States is cooperating with the Japanese national and local governments.

The U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement the suspect is assigned to the III Marine Expeditionary Force on Okinawa and that it is fully cooperating with Japanese authorities. “The Marine Corps takes these allegations very seriously and expects every Marine to adhere to the highest standards of behavior."

Futenma base, located in a densely populated area in central Okinawa, has been a sore spot for many Okinawans for decades, who demanded its relocation. Despite protests, the central government greenlit construction to relocate the base to Henoko on Okinawa’s eastern coast, though the project has faced massive delays.

A high-profile 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. service members sparked massive protests against the heavy U.S. troop presence on Okinawa. The number of arrests related to U.S. service members and their families exceeded 100 last year, according to prefectural police. Repeated occurrence of sexual crimes and some of their delayed disclosures have also sparked outrage on Okinawa in recent years.

FILE - U.S. MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft are parked at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, on the main island of the Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)