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.”

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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