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Indiana hospital prescribesbiometric network security US healthcare provider St. Vincent Hospitalsand Health Care Center has decided to secureits network with a fingerprint-based securitysystem.

The network will eventually cover eightIndiana-based hospitals and a number of otherhealth services locations and will initially be usedto help secure access to electronic systemscontaining confidential patient information.

System suppliers Computer Associates (CA)and Saflink told Btt the network will managesome 5000 users, involving the installation of 2500 sensors (supplied by AuthenTec) overthe roll-out period.

The order follows a three-month pilot in thefourth quarter of last year, which involvedapproximately 50 users and was primarilydesigned to prove the CA/Saflink technologylink up.

The roll-out will happen in a series of stages.The first stage will be completed by the end of theyear and includes about 600 users, the remainingusers will be able to use the system by June 2002,the suppliers claim.

Over time, the hospital expects to expand thesystem to include all areas of electronic infor-mation access. A primary objective is to providephysicians and nurses with fast and easy access tocritical information.

According to Dave Hayden, vice president ofsales and marketing at Saflink: “The biometricsmarket has been looking for some externalpressures to accelerate adoption of the tech-nology, such as the HIPAA act. I think thehealthcare market will prove to be a leadingadopter of the technology, along with the finan-cial services industry. This deal represents just onehospital network, and although there are nopromises, we hope to secure deals at several othersister hospitals.”

Contact: Dave Hayden at Saflink,Tel: +1 425 881 6766, Fax: +1 425 497 9330email: [email protected]

2000 seat installation setto be installed at CentralThe Credit Union Central of British Columbia(Central) is to secure authentication to its‘central security portal’ using up to 2000

stand-alone fingerprint devices from SecuGenCanada. This installation follows a 50 unitpilot that began toward the end of last year in British Columbia.

The portal is a gateway to a large number offinancial applications and is designed for use bybranch employees and large customer organizationsthat rely on Central for liquidity management andpayment settlement.

The size of the initial order is 500 devices,although the full 2000 seat roll out will becompleted by the end of 2001.

Anthony LaMantia, director of strategicplanning and key accounts at SecuGen Canada,told Btt: “This is a very exciting project. It is ourlargest order in Canada to date. The initial roll outwill be 500 devices – 150 in British Columbia and350 in Manitoba. The system uses EyeD Hamsters,which are stand-alone biometric devices for thecomputer desktop. The customer chose this device,rather than a fingerprint-based mouse, as it wantedto retain flexibility over the type of mouse productsits employees use.”

Staff will enroll their fingerprint templates at thebranch where they work, while authenticationtakes places on the central portal. Biometricauthentication is combined with digital certificatesfor web-based transactions.

For SecuGen Canada this is an importantreference site, and also represents one of the largerinstallations in North America to date. SecuGenCanada told Btt that in the future it will attemptto replicate this model within other financialservices industries.

SecuGen Canada’s parent company SecuGen isalready active in this area. Following a trial at INGDirect Canada in 1999 (Btt November ’99, p5),the bank’s US business is now reportedly issuingall new account customers with SecuGen mice,allowing them to access their accounts securelyover the internet.

Contact: Anthony LaMantia at SecuGen Canada,Tel: +1 905 415 5007, Fax: +1 905 415 5008,email: [email protected]

O’Rourke rolls out biometrictime and attendance systemThe O’Rourke Group, a major civil engineeringcompany in the UK, has said it will installbiometric time and attendance systems for itssites across the UK.

The first of the company’s sites to install the time and attendance system, which uses face recognition software from Visionics, was itsmain concrete production site in Grays, Essex.

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