Hospitals and healthcare organizations have unique security, auditability and end-user requirements. Pursuant to the HIPAA legislation, effective April 14, 2003, the health care industry must protect the privacy and security of individuals' health care information. Patient records and hospital data must be kept confidential, yet doctors and other health care specialists need access to these records from multiple physical locations in any given hospital.

All health care organizations face the issue of protecting the privacy of patients' medical information while simultaneously ensuring its ready availability to attending doctors and nurses. Many doctors and nurses find it difficult to remember individual passwords for multiple applications and frequently write them down in a non-secure location. These behaviors compromise the security of the data and violate HIPAA requirements. Healthcare organizations are now also required to keep an audit trail of individuals who access patient information. Health care organizations are held accountable for the security of their patients' personal information, and Admiral Technologies provides the ideal solution. With a suite of biometric authentication solutions, organizations can be certain who has accessed sensitive data and users can attend to the critical needs of patients without distraction.

Admiral Technologies suite of biometric solutions, enables health care organizations to increase security of their desktops, network and applications, as well as door entry access, with a convenient biometric authentication system. Following a simple process to register an individuals biometric, doctors and nurses can log on to the workstation or the network and authenticate with just the touch of a finger, or the blink of an eye, while leaving a usable audit trail behind.

• Medical staff gains access to patient information whenever they need it by authenticating with just the touch of a finger, or logging on at a glance of their eye. Passwords and access cards are eliminated
• The system is reliable and easy for hospital staff to use, while providing the roaming capability necessary to the staff.
• The system provides an audit trail for health care professionals of their daily activities
• Implementation cost is minimized because hardware and software components of the system work together seamlessly
• Admiral Technologies provides the highest level of secure authentication