Identity and Access Management: The Front Line of Information Care
Why SAINCE? |
As a leading provider of IT services to the healthcare industry and as an IBM Business Partner, we offer unparalleled technology, experience and industry expertise to deliver solutions and services in SOA, Business Process Management, Middleware and Integration, Security, Systems management, and Data Backup and Recovery. |
Just as healthcare itself is about people, the management of the security and privacy of healthcare information is also concerned with the actions of individuals. Exploits and regulatory violations occur when people gain improper or unauthorized access to information resources. Therefore, the front line of information care must be centered on solutions that manage how people access and use healthcare information.
In IT, this requires the proper identification and authentication of IT users. This is no simple task in healthcare, where numbers of disparate systems may require a single individual to maintain multiple login, password and account information. Though intended to protect IT resources, this fragmented scenario can actually pose more risks than it resolves—particularly when professionals resort to using notes or other insecure means of keeping track of their IT access information. Unifying access information and integrating identity management with a wide range of IT resources is not without substantial risks, however. Multiple systems must be integrated successfully, and access mapped to a range of resources which may include operating systems, databases and applications in numerous domains. The process of delegating access rights and privileges must also be managed. This can be one of the highest risks of an identity and access management (IAM) initiative. It requires state-of-the-art identity provisioning tools as well as experience in accepted best practices and industry standards in order to succeed.
As an industry leader in identity management with significant expertise in healthcare, SAINCE is well positioned to help healthcare resolve its most demanding identity challenges. IBM Tivoli Access Manager can integrate single sign-on access using a number of techniques—from strong passwords and tokens to biometrics, smartcards, and proximity cards or badges—to mainframe and Unix systems as well as to Microsoft Windows environments, and can extend identity integration to the Web as well as to Citrix, both popular choices for healthcare information mobility. IBM Tivoli Identity Manager extends these values to applications from a broad range of recognized names in healthcare, including Cerner, General Electric, McKesson, Meditech, Lawson, and many others. Together, IBM identity solutions can unify and centralize the administration of a single identity for multiple IT resources, significantly improving the manageability—as well as the usability—of healthcare IT.
The IBM identity solution offers many values critical to healthcare, such as quick switching and auto-logoff to high-use workstations and access points used by multiple clinicians. When LDAP or X.500-based directories are the identity information repository of choice, IBM identity solutions can integrate with existing resources, facilitating comprehensive identity integration with minimal impact. Together, these values represent one of the most comprehensive identity integration solutions available to support the requirements of information care.
SAINCE leads the way in Identity and Access Management for Healthcare providers |
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