Security is vital to every business involved in healthcare.
        According to HIPAA rules all intangible medical assets (digital information)
         must be protected with unbreakable security.  Healthcare providers must 
         protect their customers from harm and harassment by outsiders or disgruntled 
         or criminal insiders.  As you implement security strategies and technologies, 
         you must work toward three very important goals:
		

• Security must be comprehensive.  It must protect all of your company's assets including people, buildings, inventory and information.
• Security must be user-friendly.  It must provide access only after strong authentication, yet must not put stumbling blocks in the way of appropriate use of those assets.
• Security must be extensible.  This means two things.  First, security systems must be able to work in harmony to create demonstrable return on investment (ROI) benefits by centralizing security functions and lowering support and administration costs.  Secondly, security systems must position the enterprise to further enhance its security, both digital and physical, as more complex systems such as biometrics, digital signatures, and single sign-on become standard.

Products

• Smart Badge Technology

Smart cards are an enabling technology for this enhanced security. They can deliver much stronger authentication of PC and network users than simple password security. Because they can provide secure storage of passwords, digital certificates and encryption keys they can also play a crucial role in the success of authentication, single sign-on and digital signature strategies.

Smart card technology can even be combined with other security card technologies — photo IDs, magnetic-stripe, company logo and proximity cards used for building access. This integration can encourage better employee compliance with security programs by simplifying the user experience.
The smart badge is the integration of smart card and physical access ID badges that can help create a demonstrable ROI for security programs by lowering the cost of administration and support of enterprise security. Smart badge solutions, with their high data storage capacities, high security, and multi-application capabilities can help the enterprise economically manage today’s security challenges while providing a flexible technology for future security and data privacy requirements.

• Biometrics

Biometrics are automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic.  Among the features measured are; face, fingerprints, hand geometry, handwriting, iris, retinal, vein, and voice.   Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an extensive array of highly secure identification and personal verification solutions. As the level of security breaches and transaction fraud increases, the need for highly secure identification and personal verification technologies is becoming apparent.  
Biometric-based solutions are able to provide for confidential financial transactions and personal data privacy. The need for biometrics can be found in federal, state and local governments, in the military, and in commercial applications. Enterprise-wide network security infrastructures, government IDs, secure electronic banking, investing and other financial transactions, retail sales, law enforcement, and health and social services are already benefiting from these technologies.

• Digital Signatures

A digital signature is a non-forgeable transformation of data (e.g., an electronic document or file) that allows the proof of the source with non-repudiation and the verification of the integrity of that data.  The technology gives digitally signed electronic documents the same force in law as documents with handwritten signatures, and it enables transactions that require a signature to be conducted over public and private computer networks without the need to exchange paper-based documents.

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