Saratoga Hospital uses biometric technology to better manage and track health providers’ access to patient data.
To tighten privacy and security measures around its protected health information (PHI), Saratoga Hospital recently announced that it has turned to biometric technology provided by DigitalPersona Inc., to verify physicians' identity and better manage the way they access patients' medical records.
Officials at Saratoga Hospital, which operates five remote care facilities with 171 hospital beds in Saratoga Springs, NY, said that because of the cumbersome login and logoff processes, the hospital had difficulty accurately tracking access to protected health information by its more than 1,700 doctors, nurses, and staff members under their old username and password authentication processes.