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46 Healthcare IT News ■ October 2008 payERS www.HealthcareITNews.com Aetna’s provider portal gets kudos for ID security Multi-party federated framework gaining attention, traction. By PaTTy ENrado, Contributing Editor HARTFORD, CT – Liberty Alliance has recognized Aetna’s provider portal for its deployment of secure identity-based applications for the proper authentication of clinicians and staff accessing healthcare data. The partnership between Aetna and NaviMedix, its IT platform vendor, shows increased payer reliance on identity management technologies and the federation of those technologies, said Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice president of Oracle’s Identity Management. Liberty Alliance, comprising vendors, enterprise customers s a i d Ma r k C o d e r r e , and government entities, head of Aetna Security focuses on best practices Architecture. in creating a secure iden“The multi-party fedtity-based ecosystem and erations allow entities to building interoperable test engage and work together, programs and framework. and we believe this type of “Several years of our technology and framework own experience in point- Roger Sullivan to-point federations has high- is required to meet the needs of lighted a need for more compre- the healthcare system,” he said. Chere Parton, head of Aetna hensive multi-party standards on which Liberty Alliance is focused,” Provider eSolutions, said Aetna Aetna headquarters in Hartford, Conn. When it comes to patient care, every employee counts. wanted to give providers increased HIPAA-compliant security options to let them define access within Aetna’s secure provider Web site for different users and customize registrants’ experience. “We achieved this goal by combining Aetna’s proven authorization capabilities with NaviMedix’s identification capabilities,” she said. “Federations support business-to-business security allowing new combinations of constituentfocused Web solutions,” Coderre said. “Federations support business-to-business security allowing new combinations of constituent-focused Web solutions.” – Mark Coderre “As a result, we believe we have made tremendous progress in Aetna’s ability to simplify business transactions and to deliver quality service and tools to providers doing business with us as well as payers,” he said. As of Aug. 31, 2008, more than 480,000 provider offices, including 378,000 participating Aetna providers, are registered to use Aetna’s secure provider Web site via NaviNet, with more than 4.5 million electronic transactions transmitted since February. NaviMedix supports multi-party federation for Aetna and its trading partners. “NaviMedix sees a continued interest from our health plan customers and partners in leveraging transactional and communications capabilities across multiple platforms and to multiple constituents,” said Kendra Obrist, vice president of product management. “The ability to support complex security and privacy policies is the key to successfully accomplishing this,” she said. “As various healthcare constituents, including health plans, care management companies and provider organizations, look to share and exchange more clinical information, the ability to federate multi-party security schemes is critical,” she said. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: aetNa 1008 At API, we understand patients are the driving force behind everything you do. From IT to human resources and every department in between, your employees are all working toward the same goal – the safe and effective delivery of care. Our suite of labor resource management tools is designed exclusively for the healthcare market. Each application empowers employees to get the job done quickly and cost-effectively so everyone can focus on what matters most. Learn more by calling 262-670-2784 or visiting www.apisoftwareinc.com/hcitn to request a case study highlighting one organization’s use of API’s labor resource management tools. e ● Connect: aPi 1008 ● ONLY HEALTHCARE | ONLY API http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10107 http://www.ClinicalDecisionSupport.com http://www.ClinicalDecisionSupport.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10101 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10143

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