DigitalPersona Pro in Healthcare

Providers, payers and suppliers in today’s healthcare industry are increasingly challenged by regulatory mandates to mitigate risk and ensure compliance, and a strong dependence upon public trust.

Privacy. Protecting patient privacy while providing healthcare professionals with fast access to applications and electronic health records (EHR) must be balanced with the assurance of strict compliance for federal and state regulations:

• HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX and ISO17799/27001
• Other privacy and pharmaceutical (FDA 21CFR11) regulations

As government bodies and the patients continue to expand transparency requirements, healthcare organizations are again challenged to find ways to offset increasing privacy protection costs with reduced operating costs.

Security. Maintaining secure access to healthcare systems throughout their lifecycle, from offices, clinics and hospitals, to storage, claims processing and billing, is a huge burden for IT administration. Forgotten passwords or misplaced tokens can compromise information integrity and privacy, exposing healthcare organizations to unnecessary risks and legal liability.
Sadly, the vast majority of current IT security measures only serve to encumber doctors with authentication procedures that negatively impact patient-facing time.

DigitalPersona authentication for shared workstations moves beyond antiquated password- and token-based applications to deliver unrivaled biometric security to healthcare IT administrators: Rapid and secure access to apps and patient EHR with Single Sign-On (SSO) convenience and a suite of auditory tools to ensure strict compliance.

Here’s a sample of what DigitalPersona authentication solutions can do to help reduce identity-related IT risk while improving operations:

• Improves workflow efficiency
• Increases user face-time with patients
• Increases user satisfaction

• State-of-the-art fingerprint authentication
• No passwords to remember
• Allows user access only to pre-determined apps or functions
• Reads dry, thin and rough fingerprints
• Reliable results across the widest populations

• Authentication into any enterprise app, without modifying existing apps
• Supports multiple authentication credentials
• Centralized:
• Management of authentication policies
• Configuration/setup to recognize enterprise apps
• Collection of status and logs
• Reporting on status and activity
• Reduces password-related support calls by 90%*
• Helps avoid time-consuming system lockouts

• Prevents lockouts when credentials are expired, lost, stolen or forgotten
• Self-service access recovery of Windows/domain password
• IT-assisted access recovery for Windows/domain and disk encryption based on one-time codes
• Central management of recovery policies
• Centralized collection of recovery event logs and reporting of recovery activity

• Improves overall IT security
• Increases regulatory compliance
• Centrally managed, easy to maintain