GE Medical Systems

The day to day challenge of guaranteeing patient privacy continues to be network protection and the vulnerabilities in pharmacy information management systems. Password authentication mechanisms can work well. Normally, well-chosen passwords can take a significant amount of time to crack. Passwords that are easily remembered, unique and of sufficient length and complexity can provide a strong level of security.

Using words not found in the dictionary, but a combination of upper and lower case letters, with a mixture of numbers and special characters can turn eight-characters into a very secure password, even if attacked by today's high-speed computers. Unfortunately you live in the real world where people use birth dates, spouse's, children's, and pets names written on PostIt^TM notes stuck to terminals.

Precise recall of a password such as "rE8&@3dF" that changes every 30 days might exceed the limit of less-tech-savvy computer user. To make matters worse people usually have several passwords to keep track of.

GE Biometric Security integrates Centricity Pharmacy with SecuGen® optical fingerprint scanning devices to offer a dramatic increase in system security, ease of use and minimal maintenance. With this technology only authorized users will have access to the password, their finger. Under normal circumstances a finger cannot be lost, stolen, shared or forgotten. SecuGen®'s products include a biometric mouse, biometric Hamster which is a standalone desktop scanner and a keyboard with an integrated optical fingerprint scanner.

By using Fingerprint Recognition Computer technology, your pharmacy personnel have secure, fast, flexible, reliable and easy access to Centricity Pharmacy sytem applications. GE Biometric Security offers an authentication method which is exponentially stronger and more secure than password authentication. With GE Biometric Security, Centricity Pharmacy users will gain the convenience of never having to remember, or forget their passwords again.

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