Watson SCS designs, implements, and supports IT healthcare solutions that allow caregivers quick, convenient, access to critical hospital applications and information, while safeguarding confidential patient data.

In most healthcare organizations, doctors, nurses and other practitioners are responsible for an overwhelming variety of computers, applications, and appliances spread throughout rooms, floors, buildings, or even geographically dispersed locations. As a result, these clinicians often end up juggling multiple passwords or sharing work terminals.

Caregivers develop a variety of workarounds for this clinical-shared-workstation-problem – including not logging out of terminals when they complete a task, sharing passwords, or creating convenient but insecure methods of storing passwords. In an organization without the proper tools, these workarounds often result in a confusing, insecure environment that doesn’t comply with Federal and industry regulations.

Identity and Access Management software solutions, and role-based contextual identity management systems by Watson SCS eliminate the need for this trade off between security and effective health care delivery.

These robust tools

Reduce complexity for providers

Increase efficiency by automating access provisioning to critical     hospital resources

Centralize user submission and managerial approval

Drastically reduce audit and report time and complexity

Access removal is also automated, freeing up highly skilled IT resources to engage in more valuable tasks than the day to day management of the user access process.