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Controlling and securing access to protected health information (PHI) is one of the most critical issues facing healthcare organizations today. In this day and age of cybersecurity threats, rapid changes (like mergers and acquisitions, employee turnover, and evolving regulatory demands), provisioning solutions offer a robust method for role-based identity management, compliance with organizational policies, and risk management by proactively monitoring risk-areas.
Today, Imprivata announced an exciting expansion of the company’s strategic partnership with Citrix—Imprivata OneSign® will provide application single sign-on (SSO) and authentication management support for Citrix XenDesktop® 7.
Outdated communication technologies such as paging, fax, email, and phone calls delay the delivery of patient care, impact provider productivity, and reduce patient satisfaction. To solve these problems, Saint Mary’s Hospital in CT took a strategic approach to enable better communication, ease clinical workflows, and improve patient care.
Healthcare has the reputation of being highly resistant to change, that paper based systems are the best solution and that clinicians will simply not use any replacement. Why else would a hospital have to prove that they are meaningfully using new technology in order to receive the HITECH funding? Couldn’t we just trust them? So who’d have thunk it that in a survey of 477 IT professionals across multiple industries, it’s healthcare that are leading the way in the deployment of desktop virtualization!
In August, Imprivata published its 2013 Desktop Virtualization Trends in Healthcare report, the company’s third-annual survey about the adoption rates and benefits of desktop virtualization (as well as cloud-based applications and services) in healthcare.
Industry luminary Dr. Eric Topol, recently spoke as part of a six-part webinar series hosted by Imprivata. His session – which was a precursor to his message as keynote speaker of HIMSS13 last week — addressed the roles that consumers and technology will play in the coming democratization of medicine.
The merger between RxHub and SureScripts has garnered extensive coverage - here,here and here, among others. This is a huge step forward for standardizing on, and speeding the adoption of, electronic prescriptions. It is significant progress, and the latest of many advancements the healthcare sector is driving forward. There is one area of the electronic prescriptions story though that is missing from all of the stories around the RxHub/SureScripts merger, though it's an important piece of the equation - authenticating that the prescription drug order is legitimate, and truly from an approved physician. Electronic transactions are easier and quicker, sure, but so is the potential for misuse and fraud.
By combining the benefits of roaming desktops with the simplicity of No Click Access delivered by Imprivata OneSign, clinicians can now access Citrix XenDesktop or XenApp with the tap of a badge or swipe of a fingerprint - enabling clinicians to dedicate more of their time with their patients and less time with the computer.
In Part I of this two-part blog, we highlighted key challenges facing a health system Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), including the ever-present need to manage operational risk and ease-of-use of technology. In Part II, we will examine emerging trends and innovative technologies that are helping to improve patient care, but can have the potential to introduce complexity if approached without a focus on decreasing operational risk and improving end-user experience with technology.
The Imprivata team shares lessons learned from recent completion of the cyber insurance application process. Start early and be ready and transparent.