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Alliance schedules webinar on identity and health care

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Smart Card Alliance scheduled a webinar focusing on identity management in health care. The session is scheduled for Sept. 22 at 1 pm ET.

Presenters will discuss the challenges with identity management in health care and why it’s important to establish a secure health care information management infrastructure both within health care organizations and with health care data exchanges.


Paul Contino, from Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Lawrence Carbonaro, with The Memorial Hospital, will present how their organizations’ implementations of smart patient health cards have improved patient identity management.

This webinar will discuss:

  • Importance of identity management in health care
  • The enhanced liability that new regulations and legislation place on health care organizations
  • Challenges with patient identity management and authentication within health care organizations and with health care data exchanges.
  • Results achieved by the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Hospital smart patient health card programs

The webinar is sponsored by the Smart Card Alliance, Gemalto, Infineon Technologies and LifeMed Inc.

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