As the healthcare sector increasingly depends on the successful deployment of technology, Andrew Griffiths, CEO of FEDIP, the Federation for Informatics Professionals in health and care, believes that the two disciplines have deep lessons to learn from each other that will benefit them both. 

Healthcare organisations are increasingly recognising the heavy toll that slow, manual authentication processes like long, complex passwords place on clinicians, as new peer-reviewed research highlights how login demands continue to hinder care delivery.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is planning to move to a full EPR system for the whole organisation, but currently provides care using a mix of legacy best of breed systems which have been acquired and implemented over time.

In this environment, staff had to log in and out of multiple systems during their shift with the need for multiple user IDs and passwords.

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The recent cyberattack involving Change Healthcare has once again highlighted the dire and costly state of cybersecurity in healthcare.

More than two-thirds believe identity management is important to their security strategy, yet less than half are using key identity and access management (IAM) technologies.