Sentillion Tap & Go Leverages Duke's Existing Investment in Passive Proximity Badges; Provides Strong Security While Speeding Information Systems Access for Authorized Users ANDOVER, Mass., June 9
ANDOVER, Mass., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke University Health System is
deploying a new advanced authentication capability from Sentillion, called
Sentillion Tap & Go(TM), to streamline information systems access for its
14,000 clinical users while maintaining strong data and application security.
Duke will deploy Sentillion Tap & Go on over 3,100 shared workstations.
Duke, one of the elite medical centers in the United States, according to
U.S. News & World Report, is already live on Vergence, Sentillion's clinical
workstation solution which includes Single Sign-On (SSO) and context
management. Now with the implementation of Tap & Go physicians and other
caregivers will be able to roam throughout a defined work area and sign on to
different workstations simply by tapping their standard-issue passive
proximity identification badge against a workstation reader. The system will
dramatically speed and simplify clinicians' access to vital patient records
and software applications that have become essential to their professional
effectiveness.
"It is rare in enterprise IT today to be able to plug and play two
disparate pieces of technology," observed Karen Rourk, Director of Ambulatory
EMR and Desktop Development at Duke University Health System. "Sentillion Tap
& Go makes our identity and access management fully complementary to our
physical security system. When we implemented Vergence we experienced a
dramatic savings in the amount of time it took caregivers to sign in and
access their applications and now with Sentillion Tap & Go we can further
reduce the time it takes to authenticate by as much as 50% -- something we
know our caregivers will appreciate."
Sentillion Tap & Go is a patent-pending, advanced authentication
capability that leverages standard passive proximity cards to deliver the
simplest sign-on process in the healthcare industry today. Sentillion Tap &
Go is easy to adopt because it leverages the same badge that organizations use
for physical access. Caregivers can now use one badge for entry into the
parking lot, building access, as well as single sign-on to their workstation.
With Sentillion Tap & Go, users perform a two-part authentication at the
beginning of their shift by tapping their passive proximity card against a
card reader and entering their password or providing other verifiable
authentication such as a fingerprint biometric. Once this two-part
authentication is completed, Sentillion's technology initiates an
authentication grace period. During the grace period, the user can access any
other shared workstation in a defined area, such as the emergency department,
simply by tapping their badge against a reader. Users only need to perform the
two-part authentication when their grace period expires or when they move to
an area of the hospital with a different Sentillion Tap & Go policy.
Sentillion's identity and access management solutions are the most widely
deployed in healthcare and are used daily by more than 350,000 caregivers in
560 hospitals across North America and the United Kingdom, including
Eisenhower Medical Center, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Sisters of Mercy
Health System, Sharp HealthCare and Texas Children's Hospital. Sentillion is
responsible for the largest SSO deployment in healthcare, which presently
provides access to 182 clinical applications for 42,000 users across 34
hospitals and continues to expand in all three areas.
About Duke University Health System
Duke University Health System is a world-class health care network that
provides a complete continuum of health services to residents of North
Carolina's research triangle area and beyond. Duke University Medical Center
-- the hub of the health system -- is consistently ranked among the top 10
health care organizations in the country. The Health System also includes two
respected community hospitals, Durham Regional Hospital and Duke Health
Raleigh Hospital; primary and specialty care clinics; home care; hospice;
skilled nursing care; wellness centers; and community-based clinical
partnerships.
About Sentillion
Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing healthcare IT with award
winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology.
Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep
understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive set
of solutions for single sign-on, user provisioning, clinical workstations and
virtualized remote access. Sentillion recently was recognized as the number
one single sign-on (SSO) vendor in the KLAS Top 20: 2007 Year-End Report.
Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For
more information, visit http://www.sentillion.com.
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