Courion Helps Leading US Healthcare Organizations Automate Identity Management and Access Compliance.Growing Number of Healthcare Organizations Benefit from Courion's Ability to Reduce Costs, Ensure Compliance and Support Critical Healthcare Software Applications FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion[R] Corporation, the provisioning experts for results-driven operations, today announced the latest in an extensive list of US healthcare organizations that have selected the Courion Enterprise Provisioning Suite[TM] solution to automate critical identity management and access compliance processes. Alegent Health, Brookdale Senior Living, Girling Health Care, Kaleida Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital and Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. have joined other leading healthcare organizations such as 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. , Partners Healthcare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994. and WellSpan Health WellSpan Health is a large integrated health care system located in southcentral Pennsylvania. Headquartered in York, PA, Wellspan Health includes York Hospital, Gettysburg Hospital, the WellSpan Medical Group, VNA Homehealth Care, South Central Preferred, and several other health in selecting the Enterprise Provisioning Suite for its ability to automate the manual tasks associated with identity management and ease of integration with key healthcare applications. Courion provides software connectors for more than 100 enterprise applications, databases and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. such as Cerner, Epic and McKesson, among others. "When evaluating an identity and access management (IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. ) solution, care delivery organizations should consider criteria such as account, role and identity management, off-the-shelf system connectors and the ability to integrate with other IAM components within the enterprise," said Barry Runyon, research director, Healthcare Providers, Gartner. "A library of proven system connectors eases integration and dramatically increases the likelihood of a safe and successful implementation." Courion supports the software applications, databases and operating systems critical to healthcare providers through the company's industry-specific software connectors that enable rapid integration with the Courion Enterprise Provisioning Suite. Courion provides an easy integration path to all of the leading healthcare applications including Cerner Millennium; Epic; MEDITECH; McKesson; GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. and PACS (Picture ArChiving System) A storage and management system for high-resolution images. Typically pertaining to the medical field, images such as X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans require a greater amount of storage than other industries. ; GE 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. LastWord and Web Framework; Lawson/LAUA with AD and Unix; and more. "Leading healthcare organizations understand that ensuring readily available access to key applications and data within policy is a critical component of improving patient care, while protecting patient privacy and improving compliance with regulations such as 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, ," said Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate development, Courion. "Courion's ability to integrate with critical healthcare applications supports our ability to drive results that impact security, compliance, operational efficiency and patient care." To learn more about Courion's expansive collection of healthcare connectors and increasing sales momentum in this space, visit Courion (booth #3414) at the HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition, February 24-28, 2008. ABOUT COURION Courion is the Enterprise Provisioning and Access Compliance Expert for results-driven organizations. Built on market-proven technology, Courion's software solutions streamline operations and automate business processes to simultaneously achieve cost, security and service quality results. Courion's innovative approach eliminates the complexity and barriers to provisioning and compliance adoption, resulting in an unparalleled track record of customer success. Courion recently achieved a perfect score in SC Magazine's 2008 Identity Management Group Test and was recognized as a Network Products Guide 2008 "Hot Company." For more information, please visit our website at www.courion.com. Courion is a registered trademark. Enterprise Provisioning Suite is a trademark of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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