Courion and Deloitte & Touche LLP Help Accelerate Delivery of Tested Enterprise Provisioning Solution for the Healthcare Market.WASHINGTON -- Industry Leaders Offer Identicare(TM), an Integrated Identity Management and Technology Framework for Healthcare Organizations Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise provisioning solutions, and Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , one of the nation's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, announced today the launch of Identicare, a new provisioning framework that helps healthcare organizations in planning, implementing and managing their provisioning infrastructure. Identicare provides an integrated technology platform that incorporates Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) with IT risk management and implementation skills from Deloitte & Touche. Today's healthcare organizations are under significant pressure to provide patient confidentiality patient confidentiality Medical practice A Pt's right to privacy and freedom from public dissemination of information that the Pt regards as being of a personal nature. See HIPAA, Medical privacy. , protect data, and demonstrate that only authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: people have access to specific information. This new provisioning package has been designed specifically for the healthcare industry to give organizations an automated provisioning The ability to set up new communications services for customers automatically. Carriers use automated provisioning to set up their network based on customers' requirements. Such systems control all network devices from a central console and greatly speed up deployment time from days to solution that: --Enables them to quickly and easily address ongoing personnel changes, including turnover and temporary employees, and allow for rapid provision access or modified access as required. --Connects organizational processes to the underlying IT infrastructure without revealing its complexity, creating a user-friendly experience. --Assists with 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 requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). , specifically Section 164 requiring information system activity review, termination procedures, password management, information access management, access control and validation procedures, access establishment and modification, audit controls and person or entity authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. . --Has a modular architecture that allows organizations to address their immediate pain points first and build upon that foundation to move toward a comprehensive solution. "For a healthcare organization to be successful, it must be able to provide internal and external users with access to the information and resources they need while also protecting patient privacy," said Randy Conyers, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Identicare provides healthcare organizations with a technology infrastructure that helps to handle the complexity and constant flux of their business, providing appropriate automated access to systems, applications and information. Through this joint offering, Deloitte & Touche and Courion will be able to help organizations meet privacy standards, improve customer service and increase operational efficiency." As a part of the package, Courion's market-leading provisioning solution, AccountCourier(R), provides Dynamic Communities(TM), a technique for managing matrixed roles that enable the component elements of roles and rules to be assembled in "real-time" based on business, security and operational policies - greatly reducing the time, risk and cost of implementing provisioning solutions. By connecting to the underlying data defining work communities and policies where they exist, Dynamic Communities provides agility to the provisioning infrastructure, reflecting the dynamic nature of how healthcare organizations quickly assemble, disassemble dis·as·sem·ble v. dis·as·sem·bled, dis·as·sem·bling, dis·as·sem·bles v.tr. To take apart: disassemble a toaster. v.intr. 1. , and re-assemble communities of staff, partners and customers to drive business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . "The nature of today's healthcare organization requires agility and adaptability in the face of constant change," says Kurt Johnson Kurt Johnson (born March 23, 1963) is a professional American drag racing driver. He was born in Virginia, Minnesota, and currently resides in Buford, Georgia. He competes in the NHRA’s POWERade Drag Racing series, driving a Chevrolet Cobalt in the highly competitive Pro Stock , vice president of corporate development at Courion. "Identicare will enable business processes to revolve around Verb 1. revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about the needs of the business rather than the limitations of the IT infrastructure helping to drive operational efficiency, achieve compliance and enable healthcare organizations to maintain focus on patient confidentiality." In addition to Courion's technology and experience, Identicare offers the extensive industry knowledge of Deloitte & Touche, as well as their i-MAAP(TM) integration framework. The combination of Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite and Deloitte & Touche's services provides healthcare organizations with the tools necessary to leverage their identity management infrastructure. This can help enable confidentiality, automate critical business processes and manage ongoing organizational change. About Deloitte Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , a Swiss Verein A Swiss Verein ("Verein" is German for "Union") is a legal structure in Swiss law. It is similar to the Anglo-American voluntary association. Unlike Germany, a Swiss Verein does not need to be registered in order to have a separate legal personality. Most Swiss NGOs resp. , its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas -- audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal -- and serves more than one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other's acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names "Deloitte," "Deloitte & Touche," "Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu," or other related names. In the U.S., Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP, and their subsidiaries) and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. The subsidiaries of the U.S. member firm are among the nation's leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities. Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel. For more information, please visit the U.S. member firm's website at www.deloitte.com/us. About Courion Courion enables complex organizations to rapidly respond to constant change. Unlike traditional identity and access management technologies, Courion's Dynamic Community(TM)-based Provisioning empowers organizations to deliver transparent compliance, sustained efficiencies and improved business velocity, by effectively adapting to and leveraging their changing business operations, technology infrastructure and organization. Over 250 enterprise customers worldwide including 60 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning The ability for customers to change voice and data services from their carriers online without having to place the order with a human representative. Web-based user provisioning lets you add and delete services and features from your browser. See automated provisioning. , password management, industry and regulatory compliance, profile management, and digital certificate management. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com. Courion and AccountCourier are registered trademarks and Dynamic Communities, Enterprise Provisioning Suite and Identicare are trademarks of Courion Corporation. |
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