CBE Technologies' FireTower and Martin's Point Health Care Complete Testing of Biometrics System for Electronic Health Records.PORTLAND, Maine, and BOSTON -- CBE CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire (a Brit. title) CBE n abbr (= Companion of (the Order of) the British Empire) → tÃtulo de nobleza CBE n abbr (= Technologies and its subsidiary FireTower recently completed proof-of-concept testing of a biometrics and access application that speeds and secures admission to electronic health records (EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND ) by health care providers, while lowering management costs. The new system is a critical component in the rollout of an EHR system at Martin's Point Health Care clinics in Maine and New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). beginning this fall. CBE Technologies, the New England-based provider of information technology and telephony services, and FireTower, its subsidiary specializing in information security, provided systems integration for the biometrics and related software configuration at Martin's Point. This configuration is critical for provider access to medical records in a way that meets the security and patient privacy guidelines and regulations of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when of 1996) and DITSCAP DITSCAP DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DoD Instruction 5200.40) DITSCAP Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (U.S. Department of Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process). During the proof-of-concept testing FireTower worked with Martin's Point to integrate password management, two-factor user access authentication, patient information applications, and centralized management technologies. Biometric thumbprint technology positively identifies and authenticates authorized EHR system users with Citrix Password Manager software granting appropriate network and health record access. CBE and FireTower will implement and support these technologies at Martin's Point clinics. "Having electronic health record access controlled with a thumbprint reader is a great example of our investing in advanced information technology to enhance the quality of care," said Greg McCarthy, Martin's Point's director of information services See Information Systems. . Martin's Point will begin field testing the EHR system within the next month, with completion of a system-wide rollout to its three clinics in Portland and Brunswick, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States of America. It is the fourth-largest community in the county[1], with a population of 20,784 as of the 2000 census. by March 2006. About Martin's Point Health Care Martin's Point is a physician-led, customer-centric medical system providing superior care to more than 50,000 individuals in Maine, New Hampshire, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Vermont. Founded in 1981, the not-for-profit is headquartered in Portland, Maine. Martin's Point has three primary care clinics, administers the US Family Health Plan for the Department of Defense and offers self-insured businesses PointPartners(TM) - holding down costs through healthier employees. Martin's Point employs approximately 400 and has a network of 520 primary care providers and 1,715 specialists, and clinics in Maine and New Hampshire - with a network expansion to New York and Vermont underway. For more information, visit www.martinspoint.org. About CBE Technologies CBE Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers a comprehensive suite of "one stop, one view, one price" managed IT and telephony services, delivering top-quality skills and business understanding from design to implementation to support. It has sales and services offices in Wilmington, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Hartford, Connecticut; Portland, Maine; and Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. . Its FireTower information security subsidiary and Ntirety remote database administration In remote database administration (Remote DBA), a client computer is monitored and professionally managed from a remote location, usually by a third-party company, to ensure that the database and computer system that is being monitored continues to run properly and efficiently over subsidiary are based at CBE's Boston headquarters. FireTower has provided security solutions to companies throughout the northeastern United States since 1995. For over 20 years, CBE Technologies has served more than 3,500 customers across New England in the commercial, health care, government, and education market sectors. The company has pursued a careful growth strategy, always maintaining its focus on providing technology services that meet the unique needs of each customer. For more information, visit www.cbetech.com, www.ntirety.com and www.firetower.com. Citrix(R) is a registered trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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