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Enterprise Single Sign-on for HIPAA Compliance
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Overcome HIPAA Compliance Issues of Cost, Time, and User Resistance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires mechanisms for controlling access to patient information residing in providers’ IT systems. But cost and time requirements, inadequate IT staff, complex IT systems and resistance from clinicians can make compliance difficult. The use of application passwords is a critical factor in controlling access to confidential patient data. However, managing password expiry and password changes, remembering multiple passwords and enforcing strong password policies can place a burden on both IT and users—especially busy caregivers—and overwhelm the help desk.
- Strengthen password protection of applications to support HIPAA compliance
- Streamline login/logout process to save time and effort for clinicians
- Reduce burden on help desk staff handling password problems
- Simplify password management for users and IT
- Curtail password-sharing among users
- Find an easy way to incorporate authentication devices for increased security
- Ensure periodic password changes across the environment
Current Environment:In a typical hospital with shared workstations, each time a user switches from one workstation to another, they must log on to each password-protected application. Instead of performing a full logoff, busy caregivers frequently use generic logons such as username “nurse” and password “nurse” to rapidly change users. These shared logons violate the HIPAA separation of duties requirement.
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The enterprise single sign-on (SSO) capabilities of Citrix Password Manager™ automate logons, policy enforcement and password expiry/changes, making connecting to applications easier, faster and more secure, and lowering help desk costs by 25%.
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