Healthcare IT News - March 2009 - (Page 31) www.HealthcareITNews.com vendors program, identify who’s doing what their employees before installing with sensitive data and determine the software. “Obviously, there is a ‘big brothwhen and for how long employees use their computers. Searches can er’ aspect to this, but we made it be set up to identify sites visited or very clear from the beginning that keywords (such as “confidential,” the equipment and the network were company property, and we “resumé” and “sports”) used. “If we can regain just 10 minutes were going to monitor, and there of that personal time, if we add that was very little negative reaction to up over the course of a year, that’s a it,” he said. “We try not to over use this with the employees, only confull work week saved,” he said. Don Meas, IT manager for GI fronting them with evidence when & Associates Endoscopy Center in there is a serious breach of policy, Jackson, Miss., said management so they don’t feel it is being thrown Emdeon Healthcare IT News_HFN Ad_Mar09:Layout 1 2/18/09 consulted with an attorney and in their face every day. Employees March 2009 were a little reluctant at first, but now everyone realizes what we are looking for, and they aren’t afraid to go online the check the weather or their home Web mail. They just know not to spend all day there.” Taylor said most businesses implementing Spector Soft see quick returns: A reduction in wasteful computer use or company time spent on personal pursuits. In many cases, he said, just knowing the software is in place acts as a deterrent. Page 1 2:15 PM Meas said his company doesn’t ■ Healthcare IT News 31 CoNTrol Continued from page 30 software generates reports on each computer that can be accessed on a dashboard by supervisors in real time. Aside from identifying wasteful, personal or illegal Web surfing – a recent Gartner analysis indicates employees spend, on average, one hour of each work day on personal Web surfing – Taylor says Spector Soft allows healthcare providers to monitor time spent in a particular necessarily target personal transgressions, but is concerned with protecting healthcare information and improving healthcare delivery. “Our emphasis with this software has mostly focused on productivity and security,” he said. “We monitor transfers to removable media to make sure that patient data is not leaving the premises, and double check confidential charts to make sure that they are not being accessed by people with no need, etc.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: coNtrol 0309 ● CredeNTIal Continued from page 30 parameters for every employee or position in the healthcare organization. The idea, he said, is to create a set of rules that can be referenced for every single foray into the provider’s database. “We ensure that compliance can be streamlined and respectable,” he said. “We’re really a process and policy administration technology.” Analysts say the access management field is complicated, but vital. “Understanding the relationship of people to responsibilities (and) responsibilities to roles and how entitlements satisfy the responsibilities that roles signify is a significant challenge. Without this understanding, however, it is difficult to resolve an organization’s accessrelated security and policy vulnerabilities,” said Kevin Kampman, senior analyst at Burton Group. “Leveraging automated solutions that are designed to identify and maintain these policies and relationships helps to mitigate vulnerabilities,” Burton said. “The organization can reduce the risk associated with inappropriate access privileges and institute the discipline needed to limit or prevent their recurrence. The organization also benefits by clearly articulating relationships, a perspective that contributes to business transparency and effectiveness.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: credeNtial 0309 Taking care of the little things makes all the difference. ● ICHarT Continued from page 30 and PDAs. He said the cellphone has developed from the “forbidden gadget” in the hospital to a physician’s most popular tool. Indeed, in the week after TEPR+, two more vendors launched solutions designed for the iPhone. The Community Health Network, based in Indianapolis, has introduced its myCommunity Pillbox application, while iTMP Technology, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., announced the commercial launch of SMHeart Link, an application that collects data from distributed health and fitness sensors such as heart rate monitors and cycling sensors and sends it to the iPhone via Wi-Fi. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: icHart 0309 We connect more providers to more payers than anyone else. But what really sets us apart is all the little things we do for both that make the business of claims and payments so much more efficient. Discover how Emdeon is changing the business of healthcare. Visit www.emdeon.com today. 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