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Weekly UpdatesSumma Health System, Andover, Mass., a major healthcare network that serves a five county region in northeast Ohio, has gone live with Sentillion's single sign-on (SSO) and context management solutions and is systematically rolling it out to more than 4,000 caregivers. Summa Health System selected Sentillion's VergenceR clinical workstation solution, which includes SSO, advanced authentication and context management, to help manage secure access to its network while giving clinicians instant access to all the applications they need to make clinical decisions.
At Summa Health System its primary health information system, Eclipsys SCM, along with other key clinical applications are distributed to caregivers via a Citrix published application strategy. Sentillion's expertise and success with this mixture of technology was one of the primary reasons it was selected by Summa Health System.
In addition, as Summa Health System computerized its patient records it found that electronic data spread across multiple clinical applications was not able to be accessed by physicians and nurses as efficiently as possible. Prior to implementing Sentillion's clinical workstation solution, caregivers used multiple passwords to access and locate the patient's record in each application.
"SSO and context management enabled us to create a quick win with our caregivers as we were able to both simplify their workflow by speeding access to multiple applications and enable them to better manage patient data," said Greg Kall, CIO for Summa Health System. "In addition, Sentillion's close partnership with Eclipsys, our primary health information system vendor, significantly enhanced our ability to roll out the solutions within our specified timeframe and budget."
Today, when a Summa Health System caregiver provides his username and password, he is quickly and securely authenticated and, through the power of SSO, the caregiver is automatically signed into Summa Health Systems' health information systems, which includes Eclipsys, SoftMed, OptiLink, Teletracking and AGFA. Additionally, the need to search for patients in multiple applications is eliminated since context management automatically tunes the applications to the selected patient's identity, saving time, and eliminating the potential for errors.
"At the time of go-live, each clinician participated in a five minute enrollment for single sign-on, along with a brief one-on-one review session," said Pam Banchy, system director of clinical information systems for Summa Health System. "Based on enhancements to their workflow and ease of use, clinicians identified additional future applications to add to SSO that would continue to improve quality of care delivery."
About Summa Health System
Summa Health System is one of the largest integrated delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization, research and multiple foundations, Summa is nationally renowned for excellence in patient care and for exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery. Summa's clinical services are consistently recognized by U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. Summa also is a founding partner of the BioInnovation Institute in Akron.
For more information, visit http://www.summahealth.org.
About Sentillion
Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing healthcare IT with award winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology. Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive set of solutions for single sign-on, identity management, clinical workstations and desktop virtualization. Recognized as the number one single sign-on (SSO) vendor in the KLAS Top 20: 2008 Year-End Report, Sentillion is the only identity and access management company whose solutions are used daily by over 400,000 caregivers in leading healthcare organizations across North America and Europe. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass.
For more information, visit http://www.sentillion.com or call 978/725-3637.
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