Gemalto, a leader in digital security, has announced it is working with LifeMed ID to provide a robust eHealthcare solution that securely authenticates patient’s identities at Maine’s Mid Coast Hospital. The solution digitally stores and verifies identification credentials enabling secure access to the patients’ unique Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Gemalto’s advanced Sealys MultiApp ID smart cards in collaboration with LifeMed ID’s SecureReg solution enables Maine’s Mid Coast Hospital to safeguard patient medical information by authenticating the identity of the patient to reduce administrative time, cost and paperwork, improving the overall quality of care. The new system gives Mid Coast Hospital an end-to-end secure authentication infrastructure across disparate groups within the healthcare landscape for advancements in eHealth. Assigning various degrees of data access based on an individual’s role¹ ensures the confidentiality and validity of the patient’s identity and information. Today, up to 15% of medical records contain errors² resulting in a crucial need to improve the reliability of medical data; the overall solution reinforces the integrity the data of EMRs for prescriptions while working to reduce the rate of healthcare fraud.
