Leading into Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 11-17), a recent survey conducted by Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) and HealthLeaders Media allowed 100 hospitals and health systems to provide insight on how they see the current state of patient identification and registration procedures in their facilities. The survey found that more than half of respondents (54%) are not very confident in their patient identification strategies.  

Why are patients misidentified?

Historically, information security has been a pretty horizontal domain. Regardless of your industry, company size, or geographic location, you needed security policies, physical security controls, and security technologies like firewalls and antivirus software. This remains true but over the past few years, we've seen a lot of growth in specialized information security requirements for different industry business processes….Imprivata went from a general purpose single sign-on appliance vendor to an Identity and Access Management (IAM) specialist in the health care industry.

We are more than halfway through VMworld 2011 and it is abundantly clear that health care is beginning to embrace desktop virtualization at a fast clip. Despite hurricane Irene’s impact on the east coast, nearly 1,000 health care IT professionals have turned out to hear about the progress VMware and its partners are making in the industry, share experiences and, yes, showcase their success with roaming point of care desktops. 

Gabe Knuth talks with Imprivata's Cordell Perigo about their authentication platform.