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Passlogix Sign-On Solutions for The Healthcare Industry

HealthcareIf you’re an IT professional in the healthcare industry, your challenge is to provide medical professionals with rapid, easy access to critical health information … while ensuring privacy of confidential patient medical records.

That’s where Passlogix v-GO® can help – by controlling access to hospital kiosks, shared nurses’ stations, insurance billing systems, pharmaceutical databases, physician laptops, and other systems on which sensitive patient information resides.

HIPAA compliant technology
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule (HIPAA) requires healthcare providers to safeguard individuals' identifiable health information against misuse and limit the sharing of such information. According to the American Health Information Management Association, an average of 150 people view a patient’s personal medical records during the course of a typical hospital stay.

Wrongful disclosure with intent to sell information is punishable by a $250,000 fine or imprisonment of up to 10 years, or both. The imperative to ensure privacy of health data has generated new funding for IT initiatives needed to assure that protection: an AMR Research survey of 225 companies found that some $3.7 billion will be spent this year on HIPAA compliance.

Secure healthcare computing
Passlogix software can strengthen your password protection, aiding your facility in achieving HIPAA compliance.

The v-GO Session Manager enables secure kiosk computing at any location within the healthcare facility, monitoring and protecting unattended kiosk sessions from unauthorized access.

In hospitals, medical professionals are required to sign off workstations after finishing their work to avoid the disclosure of patient information to unauthorized individuals. But these busy professionals often forget to sign off -- or keep their session open so they can easily finish their work later.

With v-GO SM, inactive sessions are protected by a secure screen saver, permitting the next user to sign on to a new session while safely terminating the prior session. The IT administrator determines how long the kiosk can remain idle before terminating the session.

All authentication activity is logged. Audit reports show the IT administrator who used the system, what applications were accessed, and when -- providing full accountability for patient information usage

Fast access to vital health data
With v-GO Single Sign-On (SSO), your staff can access all their applications, databases, and systems using a single, easy-to-remember password.

The ease and convenience of our “single password sign-on” eliminates the need to remember a dozen or more individual passwords, ensuring that healthcare professionals have fast access to medical records when they need them.

Result: fewer calls to the help desk for password resets -- and no more posting passwords near the workstation on sticky notes where unauthorized users might see and use them.

The v-GO SSO software does not require password synchronization, allowing password syntax to be set at a high level. Since users only have to remember a single password, you can put more frequent password expirations in place, enhancing data protection.

Compatible with a wide range of smart cards, tokens, public key infrastructure (PKI), and biometrics, Passlogix v-GO SSO works with popular authentication devices. As a result, the Passlogix solution can enhance network security through various forms of advanced authentication.

Benefits of Passlogix v-GO sign-on technology

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