Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services has rolled out DigitalPersona Pro data protection and access security software and U.are.U fingerprint readers to prevent unauthorized access to patient records. The systems will be used by medical staff to access the more than 11,700 patient records stored in its NextGen electronic health record (EHR) system.

DigitalPersona's biometrics technology was chosen by the southern Arizona healthcare provider because it enhances workflow efficiency, strengthens patient data security, and significantly reduces IT helpdesk requests for lost or forgotten passwords, William Mayo, information systems supervisor at Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services, toldInformationWeek Healthcare.

"In our environment almost all our providers are part-time providers who are only here a couple times a month. We adopted the technology so that [they] would not have to remember another set of usernames and passwords," Mayo said. "It also enabled us to simplify and speed up the login process. Before implementingbiometric technology we were relying on using usernames and passwords to access clinic resources."