Since April of 2005, all U.S. healthcare providers have been required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) by implementing measures that safeguard the privacy of patient health information (PHI) against misuse and inappropriate disclosures.
However, surveys indicate that many providers are still not yet fully HIPAA-compliant, primarily due to the high costs, time and resources required to secure complex legacy applications and IT environments. At the same time, hospitals, clinics and medical offices have become increasingly concerned about physical security at their facilities. Now, a growing number of healthcare institutions are discovering that Imprivata OneSign® solutions offer a practical and affordable means to achieve HIPAA compliance while also improving both logical and physical security, reducing IT help desk costs, eliminating password management problems, and improving user productivity. Imprivata OneSign solutions support the unique requirements of healthcare institutions in the following ways:
Imprivata OneSign Authentication Management
- Authenticates both local and remote access users as they logon to the enterprise network;
- Supports user accountability by recording all user and application events in log files, providing a monitoring trail accessible to administrators;
- Ensures compliance to meet HIPAA and other regulatory requirements, safeguards access, and prevents the misuse of confidential patient information;
- Supports strong authentication, including ID tokens, smart cards, proximity cards and biometrics technologies;
- Ensures policy enforcement because it requires no change in end user behavior;
- Supports fast user authentication and logout on shared workstations to strengthen security inservice facilities where multiple users share one or more workstations.
Imprivata OneSign Single Sign-On
- Extends user authentication protection to include software applications;
- Single sign-on to all legacy, Web,and client/server applications, such asMeditech, Cerner, McKesson, Eclipsys, Siemensand IDX;
- Reduces costs and improves user productivity by sharply reducing help desk and password reset calls;
- Empowers end user through self service password reset capabilities;
- Allows for roaming desktops so open applications and records can travel with the clinicians;
- Integrates seamlessly with provisioning solutions from Courion and Fischer International;
- Automates the process of implementing strong password policies.
- Integrates seamlessly with content management capabilities from Carefx
- Integrates building and network access systems for unified enterprise security management.
- Consolidates identities between physical access systems and IT directories to enable one converged policy for allowing or denying network access based on a user's physical location, organizational role and/or employee status.
- Provides integrated and centralized user access monitoring and reporting capabilities in order to better demonstrate regulatory compliance.
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