Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
The Challenge
The entire health care services delivery chain - including providers, payers, contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical/biotech companies - faces a range of risk and compliance needs arising from heavy government regulation and a heavy dependence upon public trust. The healthcare industry is challenged with maintaining patient electronic record privacy, and providing access to authorized healthcare professionals while adhering to government regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Government and state regulators and patients seek more transparency, healthcare management seek operating cost reductions in light of increasing healthcare costs and IT must ensure information integrity and information privacy while providing fast access to records.
Maintaining secure access of the healthcare systems throughout the lifecycle—from patients and healthcare professionals in offices, clinics and hospitals, through record storage, to claim processing and billing systems—creates a huge burden for IT administration. Forgotten passwords or misplaced tokens could result in loss of private patient information and expose organizations to unnecessary risks and lawsuits. Unfortunately, most IT measures taken to increase security simply serve to encumber doctors and medical staff and get in the way of treating patients and saving lives.
The Solution
DigitalPersona solutions represent the perfect prescription for healthcare IT departments. DigitalPersona replaces passwords and tokens with fingerprint authentication—an approach that ensures the fastest, most secure access to shared workstations in physician exam rooms, nursing stations, and laboratories. With fingerprint-based authentication, efficient transaction-based authentication protects access to sensitive patient records, allowing fine-grained access controls and a complete audit trail for both improved security and compliance. DigitalPersona solutions reduce healthcare providers' identity-related IT risk while improving operations through:
Increasing Information Security with Simplicity
- Increasing the information security of sensitive networks and applications containing patient data while simplifying clinicians' access to IT resources.
Complying with Key Healthcare Regulations and Organization Policies
- Improving compliance with identity security reporting requirements for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, ISO17799/27001 and other privacy and pharmaceutical-specific (FDA 21CFR11) regulations.
Improving Productivity and Efficiency
- Providing fast access to shared workstations in clinics and labs by eliminating the need to remember passwords, carry tokens, log on and off, and switching between users.
- Enhancing productivity by preventing user workstation lock-out due to expired or forgotten passwords.
- Reducing operating costs through centralizing management of identity-security policies.