SOUTHFIELD ? Health-care providers trying to meet tough new HIPPA security standards that require them to protect confidential patient information, yet find ways to cut growing IT costs, now have a way to do both through a new product partnership between CA and Carefx.
On Monday, CA announced an agreement to package Carefx’s Fusion software with CA’s Identity and Access Management application, which will give clinicians secure access to patient information stored in multiple computer systems and cut costs.
Fusion provides easy access to patient information while giving health-care providers the ability to centrally monitor and report on patient records, and not violate HIPPA regulations. CA’s Identity and Access Management solution provides single sign-on, identity administration, user provisioning, user directory, identity federation, and Web services security, lets healthcare providers securely manage access to mainframe, distributed, Internet, as well as mobile systems.
?Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT,? said Oscar Diaz, executive vice president of Business Development for Carefx. ?Instead of requiring clinicians to navigate in and out of applications to find relevant patient data, our combined platform enables clinicians to sign in once, select a patient once and have the patient?s aggregated data presented to them automatically.?
Michael McDermand, vice president of Healthcare Solutions for CA, said when it comes to providing access to patient data, healthcare organizations are struggling to find the appropriate balance between security and convenience.
?By bundling Carefx?s technology with our identity and access management technologies, CA is offering these organizations a complete and effective solution to unify clinical computing environments,? he said.
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