Digital convergence has arrived! In this age of greater accessibility to information,
patients demand not only easy access to their records and medical providers, but also security of that information.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) was passed to provide strict privacy controls on a patient’s medical information and all providers are required to implement those controls to ensure only a patient and their provider have access. The best way to comply with these regulations is to use biometrics.
Biometrics solutions have been used in the medical field for years, but only now is their versatility in reaching compliance coming to the forefront. They are the easiest to implement and some of the most secure methods of restricting access to private information out there. Instead of depending on passwords or easy to lose tokens, biometrics relies on the one thing a patient will always have wherever they go: Themselves.
Medicine is undergoing a transformation into a new paradigm of doctor and patient interaction. The Medicine 2.0 revolution is coming, and with greater accessibility comes the need for more security. Let Bio-Metrica be your partner in meeting this challenge head-on.
Biometric Solutions for the Healthcare Industry
There are a variety of different biometrics solutions to fit a provider’s needs:
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Network Security / Windows Logon Protection
Your network is an important resource and you should protect it from unauthorized entry. You can protect workstations in exam rooms from being accessed by securing them with biometrics. No need to remember a password, all your staff needs is their finger |
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Single-Sign On
Most medical practice management suites have multiple applications you need to log into. With a Single-Sign On solution, you only need to login once and you won’t need to remember passwords across multiple applications. Tie this in with Windows Logon Protection and you’ll have a solution where you just logon once at any system and be ready to work in moments |
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Patient Identity Checking
Do you or your staff know who your patients are? Using biometric systems such as fingerprint recognition, you won’t have to wonder if you’re releasing medical information into the wrong hands. You’ll know who is asking for the information and will have a record of where and when they requested it and you would be fulfilling your HIPAA obligations at the same time
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Time and Attendance
Why should you rely on inaccurate and inefficient paper-based methods of tracking your staff’s time? Biometric Time and Attendance solutions take out the guesswork and minimize fraud when it comes to tracking time
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Physical Access Control
Sometimes securing your computers and network isn’t enough. To have total control over your practice, you need to prevent unauthorized personnel from entering sensitive areas. With a Physical Access Control system, you can ensure your paper files, medical supplies and other important items are kept in secure areas and are accessible only by authorized personnel and a recorded on detailed transaction logs
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Document Protection
With new federal requirements to put medical information in an electronic form there comes a need to secure this information, especially during transfer between other doctor’s offices and hospitals. You can encapsulate private medical information in a way that prevents anyone other than the party you choose to look at it. With such protection, transferring documents over public e-mail becomes a secure and trusted channel to receive information from. |
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Biometric Fingerprint Software Development Kit (SDK)
The BSDK is a full-featured set of mathematical algorithms providing any developer with the ability to integrate unique biometric technologies into new / existing access control systems, client or server HW/SW and so forth. |