

Are partnering to provide a combined biometric patient identification and patient safety platform with single sign-on. With seamless interfaces for all major electronic health record (EHR) systems and customers that collectively process over 30 million annual patient visits, RightPatient® is the healthcare industry’s most innovative and comprehensive patient identification solution. Caradigm SSO and Context Management together offer secure access to patient data, saving clinicians significantly more time than single sign-on alone.
Despite a slight decline in SSO customer satisfaction ratings over the past two years, providers generally report the technology to be a valuable purchase, especially related to workflow simplification, according to new KLAS report, “Single Sign-On: To Identity Management and Beyond.”Imprivata took the lead with a score of 83.6 out of 100, followed by Microsoft (83.2) and HealthCast (82.4). This enables providers to save countless dollars by preventing duplicate medical records and identity fraud, while strengthening patient safety and protecting sensitive personal health information (PHI).Recently recognized as the #1 KLAS SSO solution, HealthCast® provides clinicians with fast, convenient, and secure access to healthcare applications to streamline clinical workflow, and protect sensitive, confidential patient information. The solution integrates with all health information systems and supports various forms of credentialing, such as biometrics, proximity badges, and secure tokens. Plus, healthcare providers can use the powerful HealthCast® SSO platform to meet two-factor secure identification credentialing requirements for the electronic prescription of controlled substances (EPCS).United together, the alliance offers the most powerful patient safety and data integrity solution on the market to safeguard PHI, improve the quality of care, and enhance the patient and caregiver experience.“Patient safety and EHR data integrity continue to be critical components of a healthcare organization’s strategic objectives, especially in the new era of increased interoperability,” said Michael Trader, Co-Founder and President of RightPatient®. “Our strategic alliance with HealthCast® provides healthcare organizations with the opportunity to concurrently leverage our best-of-breed patient identification solution with an industry-leading SSO platform to improve patient safety and ensure high levels of data integrity for optimized clinical outcomes and reduced costs.”“RightPatient® and HealthCast® share the same mission of helping healthcare organizations become more efficient, productive, and secure while reducing their costs”, said Joan Mehn, CEO of HealthCast®. “Our #1 ranking by KLAS for single sign-on brings with it the responsibility to bring only the best solutions and services possible to our clients, and RightPatient’s technology and services meet that criterion.
IBM bought Encentuate in 2008, and Microsoft acquired Sentillion at the end of 2009. Difficulty getting biometric products to work as needed has many providers learning toward proximity tools, according to the report.Merger and acquisition activity is reframing the SSO market, KLAS noted. Biometrics, proximity cards, and smart cards. Addendum information is included for IBM, Passlogix and FairWarning.The report notes that some SSO ratings might be a reflection of the hardware used for strong factor authentication, i.e.
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