Children's Hospital Boston Selects Single Sign-On Solution from Encentuate to Improve Caregiver Productivity
Encentuate enhances quality of patient care
by streamlining caregiver workflows and protecting patient information
New Orleans, LA. - February 27, 2007 — Encentuate, a
provider of end-point identity and access management (IAM) solutions,
today announced that Children's Hospital Boston, a 350-bed leading
center for pediatric medical care and research has deployed Encentuate for Healthcare to provide single sign-on to its caregivers and
staff. Encentuate provides Children's Hospital Boston with an
integrated solution that improves caregiver productivity, reduces the
caregiver's dependency on multiple logins and passwords, and protects
confidential patient information from unauthorized access in order to
enable HIPAA compliance.
"The ability to access patient information quickly and securely is a
vital requirement for our caregivers and a key driver for the single
sign-on project," said Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS, senior vice president
and chief information officer of Children's Hospital Boston. "We went
through a rigorous selection process to choose Encentuate as our
single sign-on vendor and are happy that, with Encentuate, our
caregivers have found a solution that is easy-to-use and is an
effective way to ensure high quality patient care."
Currently, Children Hospital Boston has more than 8,000 employees,
nearly 3,000 medical professionals and more than 1,500
workstations. At Children's Hospital Boston, Encentuate's solution
provides single sign-on and single sign-off to all applications that
are accessed on clinical workstations, including Epic, Cerner,
Eclipsys, FUJI Synapse, Sharepoint clinician portal, PeopleSoft, and
Outlook Web Access. Encentuate also ensures rapid switching
between caregivers on shared workstations and protects unattended
desktops from unauthorized access by providing configurable,
time-based desktop security policies.
"We are happy to be working with Dr. Nigrin and his team at Children's
Hospital Boston to accomplish both security and convenience for its
caregivers," said Zorawar Biri Singh, CEO & President of
Encentuate. "With our proven solution, Children's Hospital Boston is
able to streamline caregiver workflows, securely access patient
information, and eliminate the typical productivity bottlenecks
associated with shared workstation environments."
With Encentuate, the IT administrators at Children Hospital Boston
are able to centrally manage security and access policies from a web
interface. Encentuate also supports all future identity management
initiatives at Children's Hospital Boston and has already integrated
with the existing user provisioning solution at the hospital to enable
end-to-end identity and access management.
About Children's Hospital Boston
About Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is home to
the world's largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical
center, where its discoveries have benefited both children and adults
since 1869. More than 500 scientists, including eight members of the
National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the Institute of Medicine
and 10 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute comprise
Children's research community. Founded as a 20-bed hospital for
children, Children's Hospital Boston today is a 350-bed comprehensive
center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values
of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and
diversity of children and families. Children's also is the primary
pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. For more
information about the hospital and its research visit: http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom.
Encentuate Media Contact: Susan Majerus, +1-970-301-4190, susanm@encentuate.com
Children Hospital Boston's Media Contact: Rachel Pugh, +1-617-355-6420.
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