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Delfigo Security providing security for Children's Hospital in Boston

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Delfigo Security, a logical access security provider, announced that the Department of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital Boston has selected DSGateway to help ensure secure access to its newly developed clinical care system.

DSGateway requires no hardware or software and uses multiple factors including biometrics to validate users accessing the system and enables traceability for HIPAA compliance.


The Department of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital is the first health care customers to select the Delfigo DSGateway solution.

The DSGateway security platform is designed to answer the question, is a user who they say they are before enabling a user to login to a system. It uses multiple identity factors including keystroke dynamics, geospatial location, and system parameters to evaluate each user to assign a confidence factor and transparently provides the appropriate level of system access. Users simply type their password and DSGateway ensures that the user is granted the appropriate level of access. [end] 

The Basque National Health System has launched a neonatal security system designed to monitor and protect new-born infants using RFID technology.

When a pregnant woman is admitted to hospital, she is provided a tag with a unique identification which can be read in all the maternity zones. When the baby is born, an RFID tag specially designed for the new born is fitted to its ankle. The device monitors the infant 24 hours a day, detecting unauthorized movements, registering entries and exits to and from and enabling immediate location information.

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IBM announced a new identity management system called Security Role and Policy Modeler. Based on IBM Research, the software analyzes employee data and recommends a set of roles to better secure an organization and manage compliance.

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Centros Especializados de San Vicente Fundacion, Columbia has chosen Orange Business Services to integrate and deliver RFID-based technology and communications services at its new branch launched in October.

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BIO-key International has announced that it has implemented its fingerprint-based solution, Positive ID Director, for EPIC software to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.

The move by Nationwide came as part of an effort to comply with regulations called Positive ID set by the Ohio Board of Pharmacies that requires hospitals in the state to have strict security and authentication methods connecting patients to their records.

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As the need for security increases, whether its K-12 or on college campuses, educators certainly don’t want to turn their schools into fortresses.

While certain elements, such as or metal detectors, may be necessary evils, some security experts believe that creating a good relationship with students could be just as important.

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Boston-based Delfigo Security has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for a visual authentication and authorization method for mobile devices.

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