Global Security Magazine reports that The Madrid Hospital Group has selected SeMarket and Sun Microsystems to establish an identity management and Single Sign On system. The project, which will be implemented by SeMarket, will enable the secure authentication of both employees and patients of the Group by using fingerprint biometrics while taking into account the norms and policies linked to access control systems. Sun Identity Manager will be the foundation for the system.

The Madrid Hospital Group comprises four hospitals (Madrid, Montepríncipe, Torrelodones and Sanchinarro) an integral oncology center and nine general hospitals, all situated in the Madrid Community, writes Marc Jacob.

The group will employ the Sun Identity Manager technology to improve and manage the multiple additions and removals of employees and the inclusion of temporary workers at each center, while also enabling the assignment of the corresponding permissions for each person. Both patients and employees will authenticate themselves at the different access points and applications, using fingerprint biometrics, Jacob writes, which will eliminate the risk of supplanting identities. This solution will also resolve the problem of duplicating patient identities which has occurred in the hospital centers in the past because of errors made in the collection of data concerning a large number of patients.

José Manuel Rodríguez, Software Director at Sun Microsystems Iberia, said that "this project answers the worries of the Madrid Hospitals in working with secure systems and platforms, which is a critical factor in their activity. The solution, which Sun and SeMarket have provided the Group with, aims to improve the Group’s current information systems and to provide the organization with efficiency, security, and a unification of patient and employee identities and data.”

Jacob also notes that a smart card which includes individual biometric data will be offered to employees. It will act as their own personal and corporate means of identification. Furthermore, a digital certificate will also be included to offer the possibility of using electronic signature services.

"This project complies clearly with our objectives in positioning ourselves as a leading hospital at the vanguard of technology enabling us to improve productivity by reducing time, controlling risk, legal compliance as well as an increasing the quality of services to our employees and patients,” according to Sergio García, IT Director for the Madrid Hospital Group.

Guillermo G. Morales, SeMarket CEO, states that “the prior work done with the Madrid Hospital Group was extremely important; this aided the client in that they were able to see for themselves the benefits that we were offering and to rely on us as their supplier.”

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