At the hospital of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God in Graz-Marschallgasse, Austria, we installed a biometric solution enabling the hospital staff to log on to the hospital information system (HIS) based on their fingerprints.

Business Challenges

• To provide protection for sensitive medical data in the context of access to the hospital information system

• To simplify and speed up the ongoing change of users in day-to-day documentation work

• To lay the basis for genuine verifiability and traceability as required by law, since a fingerprint furnishes unambiguous proof of a person’s identity.

• The hospital was looking for a simple and secure solution for protecting access to the hospital information system on a personalized basis.

Solution

• Support for the integration with the existing hospital information system

• Installation and taking live of Siemens ID Center V4.0

• Support for the initial enrollment of the staff‘s fingerprints

• Administrator training

• Support throughout the 3-month piloting phase

• Transition from pilot operation to normal operation and support during rollout

Benefits

• Reduced administrative effort for user management

• Higher security level in patient data handling

• IT cost savings

• Increased security (no spying out or disclosure of passwords)

• Staff have access to a variety of medical applications

• Easy and simple authentication with the hospital information system

• Ease of use for employees

“We tried out a few systems and then opted for Atos (Siemens) ID Center because it offers reliable and secure protection for our patient data.“

Michael Wiltschnigg, Head of IT, Hospitaller Order of St. John of God

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