SENTILLION today launched Tap2, a patent-pending, advanced authentication capability that provides caregivers with instant access to their primary clinical application with the tap of a passive proximity badge.
Currently providing support for Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, McKesson and MEDITECH applications, Tap2 radically improves clinical workflows, speeds access to clinical applications and accelerates the overall adoption of healthcare information systems throughout an organisation.
As part of Sentillion's family of advanced authentication solutions, the company said Tap2 is ideal for organizations that have made a strategic investment in a single core clinical system.
Sentillion said by leveraging an organisation's existing investment in passive proximity cards, rollout and adoption of Tap2 is easily facilitated as caregivers are able to use one badge for both physical access to the hospital and authentication and access to their clinical system.
The company said with Tap2, caregivers are not only able to access their clinical application more quickly; the hospital's IT department is able to dramatically improve both caregiver adoption and meaningful use of the clinical system without having to compromise the security policies of the organization.
With the new authentication capability, users are able to perform a two-part authentication the first time they log on to the primary clinical application by tapping their passive proximity card against a workstation reader and entering their Microsoft Active Directory (AD) password or providing other verifiable tokens such as a fingerprint biometric.
Once this initial two-factor authentication step is completed, the core clinical application is automatically launched on the workstation and the user is logged in with their application-specific credentials.
Following the two-part authentication Tap2 initiates a caregiver-specific authentication grace period. During their grace period a caregiver can similarly access the application from any other shared workstation in a defined area, such as the emergency department, simply by tapping their badge against a reader.
Tap2 connectors are presently available for Cerner PowerChart, MEDITECH Magic, Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager, Epic and McKesson. Additional connectors will also be made available.
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