Secure Authentication, part of a broader strategy to streamline patient care at
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, is helping to save caregivers time while allowing them to comply with state laws.
The system regulates who can prescribe medication and creates an audit trail of who administers it through the use of biometrics and security tokens, rather than the typical vulnerable username/password method.
Children's estimates that it has spent approximately $120,000 on the program to meet the authentication and authorization requirements of the
Ohio State Board of Pharmacy regulations.
The hospital is moving away from paper forms to an application suite from
Epic Systems and estimates that it's about 18 percent through the process, which should be completed by 2011.
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