The folks at Imprivata sent over this brilliant item from their April newsletter. 

When it comes down to why the Albany, Ga.-based Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, a 450-bed community-based hospital, decided to implement a single sign-on (SSO) solution, the reason wasn’t complex or profound. Quite simply, as Phoebe Putney Memorial director of tech services, Michael Elder, puts it, the hospital’s physicians were dealing with multiple log-in passwords from various different systems, even within its EHR from McKesson Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.).

Last year, the Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, released a report revealing that each hospital loses an average $2 million a year in productivity when clinicians can’t access electronic health records. The report sponsored by “Best in KLAS” SSO market leader, Imprivata states that 83 percent of respondents said SSO simplifies access to applications and data, and about 70 percent of participants thought SSO was important or very important to adoption of EHRs and related systems.

Live webinar series addresses the end-to-end benefits of PCoIP technology in VMware View™ and high-performance workstation environments, from data center to desktop.

Consolidation in the industry is expected to continue, with major companies taking over small companies in order to grow business and smaller companies looking for stable partners in order to survive in the competitive market. Besides these mergers and acquisitions, vendors have realized the significance of strategic partnerships with global participants as evidenced by the following developments:

As a Director of Engineering at Imprivata, I recently participated in a three day recruiting trip to three universities. The goal of the trip was for about 10 high tech companies to visit a few of the top engineering schools to facilitate new talent injection. The visit included University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University. The corporate participants included a number of very early startups and a few later stage companies like Imprivata.

Yesterday, Wyse announced the integration of Imprivata OneSign® Virtual Desktop Access with their Xenith zero client for Citrix XenDesktop and ThinOS based thin clients.. This means that hospitals that are deploying XenDesktop or ThinOS will be able to get the same No Click Access that is currently available for VMware View zero clients.

Wyse Cloud Client Computing Solutions Support Imprivata No Click Access_® for Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp and VMware View™ Virtual Desktops

Steve Lethbridge of Imprivata worries how we can get back to a better procurement culture for tech in the NHS post the National Programme

Imprivata is assigned a patent for a rules-based method of authenticating a computer via biometrics without using the security functions of the underlying operating system.