The Madrid Hospital Group selects SeMarket and Sun Microsystems for an innovative Identity management and Biometric projectMore than 2,000,000 patients and more than 1,600 employees authenticate themselves at different access points and applications using fingerprint biometrics
Barcelona, ? The Madrid Hospital Group, which is composed of four hospitals (Madrid, Montepr?ncipe, Torrelodones and Sanchinarro) an integral oncology centre and 9 general hospitals all situated in the Madrid Community, 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.
The Sun Identity Manager technology belonging to Sun Microsystems will be centralised and will help in improving and managing the multiple addition and removal of employees and the inclusion of temporary workers at each centre, at the same time it will be necessary to assign the corresponding permissions for each person. Both patients and employees will authenticate themselves at the different access points and applications using fingerprint biometrics, which will eliminate the risk of supplanting identities. This solution will also resolve the problem of duplicating identities which at times has occurred in the hospital centres due to errors made in the collection of data due to the elevated numbers of patients.
Jos? Manuel Rodr?guez, 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 organisation with efficiency, security and a unification of patient and employee identities and data.?
A smart card will also be offered to employees; this will act as their own personal and corporative identification system, and will include their biometric data, 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 Garc?a, IT Director for the Madrid Hospital Group.
Guillermo G. Morales, CEO at SeMarket, 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?.
The Madrid Hospital Group (Group HM) has more than 1,600 personnel. It has an excellent reputation in the sector due its highly skilled workforce, as well as being equipped with the latest technology.
About SeMarket
SeMarket is a Spanish company founded in 1999 and which specializes in the research and development of security products and services in the areas of identification, verification, and identity management, access control and electronic signatures. The objective of SeMarket is to ensure the identity of people and organisations. In order to achieve this it can count on a wide range of biometric technologies such as face, voice and fingerprint recognition as well as, electronic signature services based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology.
With more than 10 years of experience, SeMarket was the first Biometric R&D Company in Spain, and continues investing in order to offer the best solutions to the marketplace. The company maintains technological and strategic alliances with manufacturers, distributors, and consultancy and integration businesses both nationally and internationally.
The company has its headquarters and centre of operations in Barcelona and has representative offices in Madrid, Luxembourg and Santiago in Chile.
About Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops technology which is sold and promoted throughout the world marketplace. Guided by a single vision ?The Network is The Computer? - Sun manages participation through shared innovation, the development of communities and leading the open source movement. Sun is present in over 100 countries and on the Internet, its website is www.sun.es.
About Group HM
The Madrid Hospital Group consists of different companies that manage different private medical and surgical hospitals. Run by medics with the aim of offering quality medical treatment, the different Group HM centres use the latest technological equipment, and are supported by highly talented individuals.
All the hospitals belonging to the Group HM work closely together. In order to achieve this, there exists a corporative structure with centralised services such as different built-in IT management tools. This allows complementary actions and brings structural, services and equipment synergies, while taking maximum advantage of the technological and human resources.
For additional information please contact:
Luis Gisbert
Marketing Director
Tel. 93 318 67 36
l.gisbert@semarket.com
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