submitted by Luis Kun
Homeland Security News Wire - March 13, 2012
To improve privacy and security measures, Saratoga Hospital in New York recently announced that it would be partnering with DigitalPersona Inc. to install biometric access controls to verify medical personnel’s identities and increase efficiency.
Saratoga Hospitals operates five remote care facilities in New York where it employs more than 1,700 doctors, nurses, and staff members. Due to the awkward username and password authentication process, hospital officials say they had difficulty accurately tracking access to its sensitive data networks.
“We needed a solution that would encourage our staff to comply with our access control policies without limiting their ability to treat patients and be productive,” explained Gary Moon, Saratoga Hospital’s information systems security analyst, in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare. “Passwords can be cumbersome, and oftentimes the staff would stay logged in to avoid having to manually type a password each time they needed to access patient information. Thus, we could not track who had accessed information.”
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