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Mayday implements single sign-on with smartcard and PIN
11 February 2008
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust in Croydon, south London, has implemented
a single sign-on solution that will enable its two thousand users to
sign on to all IT applications using one smartcard and PIN number.
The Trust wanted to use the smartcards issued by NHS Connecting for
Health (CfH) with its legacy
applications, so enlisted the help of integration experts Enline. With
Enline's Imprivata OneSign solution, staff will be able to log on
and
off and gain access to all applications, simply by inserting and
removing their smartcards. The changeover period between sessions on
designated shared workstations, when one user logs off and another one
logs on, will be significantly reduced.
Tony Kaye, IT Services Manager for the Trust explains: "Enline's
solution will enable our staff to focus on doing their jobs, rather than
wasting time having to remember streams of passwords to gain
access to core applications. The new access-management system will
enable us to improve clinical efficiencies and the quality and speed of
our auditing as well as dramatically reducing password-reset related
helpdesk calls, and their associated costs."
Historically, access to applications had been slow, with long login
and
logout times when changing users on workstations. As a result, many
staff had remained logged in to allow other users to gain faster access
to workstations, which was seriously compromising security.
Mike Nelsey, Managing Director at Enline said: "NHS trusts are keen
to
realise the true potential of the smartcards they have been issued. But
currently many are unaware that their smartcards, when used as part of
an effective IAM solution, can fulfill a very large variety of uses,
including access to information and applications that require specific
authorisation, car park entry, door access or cashless vending. An
effective IAM solution unlocks the potential of these cards, and the
benefits to an NHS trust are substantial and immediate."
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