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June 07, 2013

Caradigm Reaches 1 Million Users


Caradigm, a joint venture between Microsoft and GE Healthcare, has announced that they have achieved the milestone of one million users of its Identity and Access Management (AIM) for healthcare solutions. Identity and Access Management solutions was created to assist health and hospital systems in accessing a complete patient data package that helps caregivers focus more on patients, reduces the administrative workload for IT purposes, and assists in compliance of industry regulations.

There are currently more than 1,400 hospitals around the world that use the Caradigm system, and among that group are: the top three hospital groups that work on a for-profit basis, over 150 veterans’ hospitals in the United States, and nine children’s hospitals. The most recent healthcare groups to begin using the Caradigm Identity and Access Management solutions and help surpass the one million user mark are: Bayfront Health, Iowa Health, Kennedy Health System and WVU Hospitals.

Upon the decision to use Caradigm’s Identity and Access Management solutions, the healthcare group will have access to:

  • Caradigm Provisioning, a role-based identity management solution that automatically creates, modifies, and terminates access in clinical applications. This provides the user with rapid access to the proper clinical applications as they are needed.
  • Caradigm Single Sign-On and Context Management, two elements that work as one to help condense single sign-on, role-based application access, patient context management, multi-factor authentication and centralized auditing capabilities into an integrated clinical workstation solution.
  • Caradigm Identity and Access Management for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), which is designed to enable fast user provisioning and single sign-on for users of Epic, Cerner and GE Centricity EHRs to help better manage a patient’s protected health information (PHI).

Jim Campbell, the vice president of identity and access management for Caradigm, says that the solution fills a vital need and healthcare organizations face what he calls “the perfect storm.” Campbell says the healthcare industry is faced with “massive and ever-expanding volumes of data, a growing number of clinical, productivity and mobile applications; and the shift toward collaborative care across boundaries.”




Edited by Alisen Downey
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