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AMERICA’S TOP CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SELECTS COURION FOR INTEGRATED ACCOUNT PROVISIONING AND PASSWORD MANAGEMENTLooks to Enhance Staff Productivity, Streamline Access to Critical IT Resources, and Ensure HIPAA Privacy ComplianceFRAMINGHAM, Mass. — October 7, 2002 — Courion® Corporation, a leading provider of identity management lifecycle solutions, today announced that Children’s Hospital Boston, recently named America’s Best Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Report, has selected Courion’s AccountCourier™ for account provisioning and PasswordCourier® for password management. With Courion’s technology, Children’s Hospital Boston expects to improve the speed by which its medical and administrative personnel can access key computer systems, reduce administrative burden by streamlining common user management tasks, and enforce stronger authentication, access, and auditing policies to increase data security and facilitate compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.“We try to instill in our IT staff that enforcing strict security standards and achieving HIPAA compliance should not impact our ability to deliver the best possible patient care,” said Scott Ogawa, CTO, Children’s Hospital Boston. “We selected Courion for integrated provisioning and password management because they demonstrated this same understanding, and offered solutions that were designed with both technical IT administrators and end users in mind. AccountCourier’s workflow engine and provisioning policies are intuitive and easy-to-use, PasswordCourier’s self-service password reset features meet all of our requirements, and both solutions can support all of our platforms, including our numerous proprietary applications.” AccountCourier, Courion’s account provisioning and user ID management solution, will enable authorized business managers and IT staff at Children’s Hospital Boston to instantly grant and revoke access to critical computing systems such as Windows NT, Active Directory, and LDAP directories instead of having to coordinate requests to numerous system administrators who use different native tools. By providing Web-based policies that can automatically create, disable, modify, and delete IT accounts, and a centralized repository that associates users with their access rights, AccountCourier will simultaneously improve both security and service, while reducing costs. PasswordCourier, Courion’s password reset and synchronization solution, will enable the staff at Children’s Hospital Boston to securely reset their own passwords without having to call a help desk agent, resulting in immediate cost savings to the hospital. Both solutions will also assist Children’s Hospital Boston in complying with important HIPAA privacy provisions by consistently enforcing strong password policies across all IT systems, ensuring that users are properly authenticated for every password reset and account provisioning request, and capturing detailed audit trails for all changes in access rights. “We are extremely excited that Children’s Hospital Boston has chosen our integrated account provisioning and password management solutions,” said Thomas Rose, vice president of marketing, Courion. “This competitive win reinforces how much our customers value rapid ROI, ease-of-use, and the ability to deliver complete identity management solutions that enhance both security and service. Our superior account provisioning technology, established leadership position in password management, and proven track record of results will continue to benefit us as the identity management market matures.” About Children’s Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is the nation’s premier pediatric medical center. Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, today it is a 300-bed comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's Hospital is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, home to the world's leading pediatric research enterprise, and the largest provider of health care to the children of Massachusetts. For more information about the hospital visit www.childrenshospital.org. About Courion Courion Corporation is the leading provider of identity management lifecycle solutions that enable intranet and extranet users to conduct business securely in any computing environment. Courion’s account provisioning and password management software aligns enterprise security policies with business imperatives and connects quickly to existing IT infrastructure for clear cost-savings and rapid ROI. Companies that rely on Courion solutions to reduce user administration costs, protect information assets and enhance user productivity include customers such as The Boeing Company, Cummins, Inc., Dell Computer Corp., GE, Raymond James Financial Services, SunTrust Banks, Target Corporation, U.S. Census Bureau and WellPoint Health Networks and partners such as HP, PeopleSoft, Peregrine Systems, and Unisys Corp. Courion’s headquarters is in Framingham, MA. For more information, visit www.courion.com or call 508-879-8400. Courion and PasswordCourier are registered trademarks and AccountCourier is a trademark of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Editorial Contact: Tracey Tarinelli PAN Communications, Inc. 978/474-1900 ttarinelli@pancomm.com top of page |
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