Security Hardware Tokens Replaced with Entrust Security Software to Achieve Strong Authentication and HIPAA Compliance for IDX Systems Corporation
Entrust TruePass? software for Web-based strong authentication provides a greater return on investment over security hardware tokens
20 Nov 2002
DALLAS - Entrust, Inc. [Nasdaq: ENTU], a leading global provider of enhanced Internet security solutions and services, today announced that IDX Systems Corporation [Nasdaq: IDXC] has selected to use Entrust software throughout its enterprise. The Entrust solution supports IDX's communications under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) while bringing electronic efficiencies to business processes for internal employees and external business partners.
IDX selected Entrust TruePass software as a replacement for its existing hardware tokens for strong authentication. The Entrust solution also enables digital signatures on electronic transactions, in addition to privacy and verification of participants in a business communication or transaction in a cost-effective manner. This added security to Internet communications protects sensitive information from unauthorized access and misuse.
"We are focused on maintaining and implementing the highest quality security and privacy practices," said Tim Cornish, Manager of Information Services, IDX. "We believe Entrust TruePass offers IDX users a flexible, easy-to-use alternative to hardware tokens that will drive a greater return on investment. As a result, Entrust TruePass will become the Web-based method by which we authenticate end users and eventually provide digital signatures to electronic documents."
"We are pleased to have been selected by IDX and look forward to a strong future relationship," said Bill Conner, president, chief executive officer and chairman, Entrust, Inc. "Entrust continues to expand its customer base in the health care market. While the primary purpose for most institutions is to achieve HIPAA compliance, we have found that achieving a greater return on investment through a flexible solution is equally important to leading companies like IDX."
The IDX selection of Entrust TruePass software to replace its hardware tokens is supported by a recent independent industry analyst group study. The report revealed that Entrust TruePassTM software is a robust security alternative to hardware tokens. More importantly, in the current economic environment, this solution also provides a higher return on investment in the scenarios studied, offering a more cost-effective method of protecting Web-based access to critical data. For further information on the Giga Information Group study entitled, "The Total Economic ImpactTM Of Entrust TruePass and Token-Based Authentication," see: http://www.entrust.com.
About the Solutions
The Entrust Authority? and Entrust True Pass? product portfolios provide enhanced identification, verification, privacy and security management capabilities. The solutions allow users to identify and verify the person with whom they are communicating with greater confidence, lets enterprises control access to specific files, provides secured storage and management of intranet information, and enables the integration of partner applications such as e-forms.
About IDX
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. IDX supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary and functionally rich products installed at 3,200 client sites. Customers include 134,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve patient care and other workflow processes. IDX Systems are installed at:
- 370 Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) representing more than 660 hospitals
- 175 large group practices with more than 200 physicians
- 635 mid-size group practices with less than 200 physicians
The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based tools -- built using Internet architecture -- that facilitates access for patients, physicians and care providers to vital health information and data managed by the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care products. EDiX Corporation, an IDX subsidiary, offers medical transcription and clinical documentation services to physicians groups and hospital customers. IDX has approximately 4,755 full-time employees.