Following an external attack on its computer network last year when more than 100,000 alumni records may have been exposed, Boston College has implemented Fidelis Security Systems’ DataSafe Extrusion Prevention System to prevent future attacks. The new system will guard the college’s administrative records, including alumni information, donor data, student educational records, and other sensitive […]

With its 2.2.2 Java Card release, Sun Microsystems has added contactless capabilities and biometrics support for smart card chip manufacturers and smart card vendors. The Cardtech announcement came prior to a talk on the “Future of Java Card” to be delivered by Sun’s chief information officer. Beneficiaries of the new platform specification include telecom service […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Using single sign-on, roaming access, and a sonar sensor device, the University of Colorado Hospital can meet not only HIPAA privacy requirements, but give its nurses and doctors faster access and more flexibility in dealing with their patients’ records and actual treatment. This is thanks to a system set up […]

This article is reprinted with the permission of the Smart Card Alliance As more and more protected health care information is stored or transmitted electronically and becomes network accessible, health care organizations have become increasingly concerned with controlling access to that information. HIPAA requires all health care organizations that create or maintain electronic health care […]

Puerto Rico’s Department of Health has tapped Axalto to supply the island’s two million health smart cards, the largest North American deployment to date and which is expected to be completed by the middle of next year. AUSTIN, Texas-Axalto, the world’s leading provider of microprocessor cards, announced that it has been selected to provide all […]

Princeton Junction, NJ, September 30, 2003 – Smart cards have a unique capability to make information access easier for users while at the same time enforcing the more robust security and privacy policies required of health care organizations to bring their environments into HIPAA compliance, according to a new Smart Card Alliance white paper released […]

Princeton Junction, NJ, February 24, 2003 – Speakers and attendees at the recently concluded Smart Card Alliance Mid-Winter Conference were all in agreement that applying technology to protect identities and the privacy of individuals presents an excellent market opportunity. “The smart card industry is positioned ideally to address macro-trends in the growing smart card market,” […]

For most of us, the new HIPAA regulation has simply meant signing a privacy form, sometimes several, on a visit to a doctor or hospital. But, of course, it is much more. And the Smart Card Alliance (SCA), in one of its latest white papers, wants to show how smart cards can help secure all […]