ThirdFactor | Pharmacy benefit manager employs biometrics to improve security

Thursday, July 3, 2008

In an effort to increase security, a leading pharmacy benefit manager has tapped IdentiPHI and their partner Zvetco Biometrics to help implement a solution.

By using IdentiPHI’s SAFsolution in conjunction with Zvetco’s biometric fingerprint readers, the pharmacy benefit manager is expected to ease password administration, support and secure multi-person use terminals and secure network access to meet patient privacy regulations.

The SAFsolution software and Zvetco’s biometric fingerprint readers will be switch users from password based security to biometrics based by using fingerprints in lieu of currently used user passwords. The pharmacy benefit manager that is employing the new security solution is expecting dramatic results in safety and security of its protected data.

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