Courion Delivers Identity Management Support for Leading Healthcare Applications.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003 New Connectors Facilitate 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, Compliance and Enhance Network Security, While Reducing Costs and Streamlining Access to Patient Systems Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions, today announced support for several key software applications used by leading hospitals, HMOs and other healthcare organizations. Courion's new software connectors enable integration between three leading healthcare applications and PasswordCourier(R), Courion's enterprise password management solution. Enterprises that rely on these healthcare applications can now use PasswordCourier to enforce stronger password policies and capture more detailed audit trails to help comply with HIPAA privacy regulations. The new connectors extend Courion's self-service password reset Self-service password reset is defined as any process or technology that allows users who have either forgotten their password or triggered an intruder lockout to authenticate with an alternate factor, and repair their own problem, without calling the help desk. , password synchronization Password synchronization is defined as any process or technology that helps users to maintain a single password that is subject to a single security policy, and changes on a single schedule across multiple systems. and centralized password policy enforcement features to the IDX (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. Web Framework clinical system from IDX Systems IDX Systems Corporation (IDX) was a healthcare software technology company that formerly had headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1969 by Robert Hoehl, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman. Corporation, the EmSTAT emergency department information system from A4 Health Systems and the CliniComp CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S patient record system from CliniComp. PasswordCourier enables healthcare providers to deliver unassisted, 24x7 password reset services to employees to help eliminate password-related help desk calls and improve service quality while delivering tighter security and HIPAA compliance. Further, PasswordCourier synchronizes passwords with other commonly used operating systems and applications easing the user login experience and streamlining access to systems healthcare workers need to do their jobs. PasswordCourier integrates with each healthcare system via modular, agentless connectors developed by Courion. With Courion's agentless connector approach, no additional software is required on the health care systems, thereby expediting the deployment of self-service password management and password synchronization to employees. The new connectors are now in use at Courion's customer Sharp HealthCare (see related release dated 8/4/03 Sharp HealthCare Deploys Courion's Identity Management Solutions). "We initially selected PasswordCourier to manage passwords on our mainstream operating systems, but we recognized the opportunity to expand the product's security, service and cost-saving benefits to our health care applications," said Sharp HealthCare Senior Vice President and CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. William A. Spooner. "Courion worked closely with us to ensure that the connectors worked within the constraints of our environment and met our requirements. The flexibility of Courion's connector toolkit and the speed with which Courion developed and refined the connectors were impressive." "The investments we made in our connector toolkit enables us to solve real business problems for customers like Sharp HealthCare," said Chris Zannetos, Courion's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our design decisions to focus on flexibility and support a wide range of connector technologies are being validated as customers extend our provisioning and password management solutions to more and more applications." Availability The PasswordCourier connectors for IDX Web Framework, EmSTAT and CliniComp CIS are now part of Courion's connector library, and are available immediately through Courion and Courion Authorized Solution Providers. About Courion Courion(R) Corporation is a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions that help enterprises manage the access rights and credentials of employees, business partners and customers with more speed, more security and less cost. Courion's Identity Management Suite(TM), anchored by its AccountCourier(R) user provisioning and PasswordCourier(R) password management product lines, securely automates the resolution of common operational challenges such as user account setup and deletion and password reset and synchronization. Courion's non-invasive, self-service architecture enforces security policies, while providing measurable cost-savings, operational efficiencies and productivity improvements. Courion's customers include industry leaders such as American Electric Power American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is a major investor-owner electric utility in various parts of the United States. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It serves parts of 11 states, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United States. , The Boeing Company, Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. , Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. , GE, Office Depot, SunTrust Banks, government institutions such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Census Bureau, and large not-for-profit organizations such as Kaiser Permanente. Courion is funded by QuestMark Partners, JMI JMI Java Metadata Interface (Sun Microsystems) JMI Japan Market Intelligence JMI James Madison Institute JMI Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (Florida State University) Equity and other private investors. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at +1 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com. Courion, PasswordCourier and AccountCourier are registered trademarks of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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