Novell Helps Catholic Healthcare West Strengthen Security and Compliance Initiatives, Reduce Costs
February 22nd, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 21 times, 1 so far today
Novell Helps Catholic Healthcare West Strengthen Security and Compliance Initiatives, Reduce Costs
Novell today announced that Catholic Healthcare West, a 9,500-bed hospital system, has implemented a Novell® solution to increase security and strengthen its compliance initiatives. The organization centralized identity management with Novell Identity Manager 3 to ensure only authorized users have access to patient data in accordance with HIPAA regulations, reducing administration time by 70 percent. The hospital system also anticipates saving $1.5 million by deploying Novell’s SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for a more flexible, open environment.
“We operate in a highly regulated environment where the requirements are always changing,†said Eric Leader, chief technology architect at Catholic Healthcare West. “We simply had to consolidate identity management or we would see a huge increase in time spent managing regulatory issues. The identity and access management solution provided by Novell helps us stay ahead of the curve.â€
With Novell, identity information is managed centrally across applications running on multiple platforms including Windows*, multiple versions of UNIX* and Linux*. Catholic Healthcare West IT staff can now conduct timely audits to track who is accessing information and when – an important component to complying with HIPAA regulations.
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