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Identity Provider Medical Edition :: Federated Identity Suite

Issuing Emergency Access Credentials

Symlabs Identity Provider, Medical Edition, uses federated identity and IdP proxy to fully authenticate doctors, medical staff, and patients. Building on this, it can configure a special medical access authentication context to indicate that emergency patient access is authorized, constrained to circumstances and scope defined in advance. Acting as a patient's IdP, Symlabs Identity Provider, Medical Edition, receives the access request, then consults the doctor's IdP for authentication and verification that the doctor is properly licensed. If so, it issues special credentials for the doctor to access only those parts of the patient's identity service that contain needed medical information.
 
Federated Identity Access to Health Care Records
 
Symlabs Identity Provider, Medical Edition is the component of Symlabs Federated Identity Suite that enables hospitals and clinics to create a Single Sign-On (SSO) environment for access to medical applications. By using Single Sign-On (SSO), doctors and staff can easily access patient records from all of their federated identity enabled internal data repositories. SSO also lets them access patient data repositories or other key information databases at any trusted outside sources, such as insurance companies or consultation affiliates. As a federated identity provider (IdP), Symlabs Identity Provider, Medical Edition enforces tight controls over the disclosure of private information by authorizing only appropriate staff to access records based on strong authentication of their identities.
 

Patients can also use SSO to monitor their own records, or gain entry to various personal medical assistance applications that may be available. In addition, it allows them to authorize a wide variety of medical professionals, by name or by organization plus medical role, to access their records, all based on authentication and authorization performed by Symlabs Identity Provider, Medical Edition.

Federated Identity Suite Diagram

Features
  • High performance, extremely reliable, and scalable
  • Simultaneous support for three classes of standards
  • SAML (2.0)*
  • Liberty Alliance (ID-WSF 1.1, ID-WSF 2.0, and ID-FF 1.2)*
  • WS-Federation (1.0)*
  • Tested and certified Liberty Interoperable™
  • Support for the Medical Authentication Context that enables emergency access according to rules defined in advance by the patient
  • Supports proxy IdP authentication to a doctor's IdP
  • Web-based, SSO-enabled management GUI

 

Benefits
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) for medical professionals and patients enables fast, simple, secure access to records
  • Reduces errors and delays in treatment, provides security and audit trail to support regulatory needs
  • Emergency access to patient records helps to avoid unnecessary tests and costly procedures
  • Centralized authentication, access policy, and management is more effective, secure, and enables further automation
  • Scalable, industry standard architecture reduces cost and allows expansion with minimum disruption
  • Advanced authentication methods can easily be added as needed to support new requirements
  • Easily integrates with existing systems and interoperates with all major healthcare networks
  • Powerful built-in scripting language for customizing
 
Platforms Supported
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Solaris Sparc 8 or higher
  • Solaris x86 9 or higher
  • Linux
  • AIX
  • HP/UX


About Symlabs
 
Symlabs is the performance leader for virtual directory and identity management solutions.   Benchmarks show Symlabs Virtual Directory Server, LDAP Proxy and Federated Identity Suite are the fastest and most powerful products in the industry for managing and unifying identity data.   Global giants like Sony, IBM, Vodafone, Nokia and United Nations already depend on Symlabs to add flexibility, security, and reliability to their infrastructure.  Symlabs also offers annual support, training and professional services to our clients to help them develop, integrate, and maintain solutions.