UMass Memorial Health Care Selects the Imprivata Security & Identity Platform to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse & Improve Cli...
June 14 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
- As opiate abuse climbs across the
country, UMass Memorial commits to early adoption of EPCS to fight
the epidemic through technology
- UMass Memorial will deploy Imprivata’s
secure signing for EPCS and single sign-on capabilities to allow
for seamless integration with the hospital’s new Epic electronic
health record
Imprivata® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT security
company, today announced that UMass Memorial Health Care has
selected the Imprivata security and identity platform
to enable fast, secure electronic prescribing of controlled
substances (EPCS) and improve authentication and access workflows
with their new Epic electronic health record system. UMass Memorial
is deploying multiple products from the Imprivata security and
identity platform including Imprivata Confirm ID™ for EPCS and
Imprivata OneSign®. Imprivata Confirm ID for EPCS effectively
reduces fraud, drug diversion, and doctor shopping by providing
clinicians with a secure platform to efficiently prescribe opiates
electronically while meeting DEA requirements. Imprivata OneSign
will help ensure secure and convenient access to the Epic
electronic health records platform.
“We sought a new technology platform that could provide added
security without increasing the administrative workload on our
clinical staff, and we’re happy to have found it through our
partnership with Imprivata,” shared Eric Alper, MD, vice
president and chief clinical informatics officer for UMass
Memorial Health Care. “We are also committed to combatting the
current opioid abuse epidemic in this country, which has hit
Massachusetts particularly hard. Technology like Imprivata Confirm
ID will allow us to ensure that secure, safe electronic prescribing
methods are utilized across our health system along with adding
increased security to our core IT systems.”
Imprivata Confirm ID for EPCS delivers the industry’s most
comprehensive platform for provider identity proofing, supervised
enrollment of credentials, two-factor authentication, and auditing
and reporting to help healthcare organizations meet the DEA
requirements for EPCS. By integrating directly into leading EHRs
and e-prescribing applications, and simplifying two-factor
authentication through Hands Free Authentication, push token
notification, and other DEA-compliant solutions, Imprivata Confirm
ID for EPCS simplifies the EPCS workflow to drive provider adoption
and improve patient care.
“EPCS has always been a challenge for hospitals to implement
because existing modalities for two-factor authentication have been
time consuming, challenging, and not well integrated into provider
workflows,” said Omar Hussain, President and CEO of Imprivata. “Not
only does the Imprivata security and identity platform integrate
directly into existing clinical access and e-prescribing workflows,
but it also gives providers fast, convenient two-factor
authentication that meets DEA requirements.”
EPCS is allowed in all 50 states and several, including New York
and Maine, have passed legislation to mandate it. Since New York
mandated EPCS with the New Internet System for Tracking
Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) law in March, the state has 66% of total
prescribers enabled to electronically prescribe controlled
substances and 84% are already electronically prescribing in
general, according to Surescripts. In addition, 95% of New York
pharmacies are able to accept prescriptions for controlled
substances.
Mr. Hussain continued, “While Massachusetts has yet to make EPCS
a requirement, we feel states are now increasingly looking at EPCS
as a way to help combat opiate abuse as quickly as New York State
has.”
In addition to enabling EPCS with Imprivata Confirm ID for EPCS,
UMass Memorial Health Care will implement Imprivata OneSign to help
drive adoption of their new EHR platform, protect sensitive patient
information, and increase overall efficiency. Care providers need
to authenticate their identity an average of 70 times a day, and
are prompted each time to enter a username and password, which
inevitably slows down the care process and distracts doctors and
nurses. Imprivata OneSign will allow UMass Memorial clinicians to
securely access the hospital’s new Epic EHR and improve clinician
workflows by providing an end-to-end password management solution
that incorporates single sign-on, authentication management, and
virtual desktop roaming. Providers will simply tap a badge or swipe
a fingerprint to gain access to patient information.
About UMass Memorial Health CareUMass Memorial Health
Care is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central
Massachusetts with more than 12,900 employees and 1,670 physicians,
many of whom are members of UMass Memorial Medical Group. Our
member hospitals and entities include UMass Memorial – Clinton
Hospital, UMass Memorial – HealthAlliance Hospital, UMass Memorial
– Marlborough Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass
Memorial – Community Healthlink, our behavioral health agency. With
our teaching and research partner, the University of Massachusetts
Medical School, our extensive primary care network and our cancer,
diabetes, heart and vascular, orthopedic and surgery programs,
UMass Memorial delivers safe, high-quality and compassionate
care.
About ImprivataImprivata® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT
security company, provides healthcare organizations globally with a
security and identity platform that delivers authentication
management, fast access to patient information, secure
communications, and positive patient identification. Imprivata
enables care providers to securely and efficiently access,
communicate, and transact patient health information to address
critical compliance and security challenges while improving
productivity and the patient experience. For more information,
please visit www.imprivata.com.
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ImprivataMedia ContactsJohn Hallock,
617-615-7712jhallock@imprivata.comorKerry Pillion,
781-761-1452kpillion@imprivata.comorTony Berry,
508-793-5394Anthony.berry@umassmemorial.orgorInvestor
Contact:Jeff Bray, 781-761-1417jbray@imprivata.com
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