MedImpact First in Healthcare to Deploy FIDO Authentication, with Nok Nok Labs Enabling Physician Access Portal National PBM to Provide FIDO Authentication for up to 50 Million Healthcare Consumers Business Wire 2015/03/24SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc., an independent, trend-focused Pharmacy Benefit Manager, will be the first to deploy FIDO authentication for the healthcare industry. MedImpact will use Nok Nok Labs technology to enable its Physician Access Portal with FIDO biometric fingerprint authentication to protect patient privacy. Healthcare providers who have been invited to use the MedImpact Physician Access Portal will be the first community of users to experience the convenience and security of FIDO authentication. Ultimately, MedImpact will make FIDO authentication in all its web applications available to its client health insurance providers and their 50 million covered members. The initial solution will launch summer 2015. Utilizing Nok Nok Labs' S3 Authentication Suite, MedImpact can enable authorized healthcare providers to access its Physician Portal with a supported fingerprint reader—instead of a password. MedImpact's Physician Portal is a solution for busy healthcare providers who need a fast, secure and convenient way to see a patient's full prescription history. "We opted for a solution powered by Nok Nok Labs to replace the need for passwords for healthcare providers accessing our Physician Portal. By allowing them to use the fingerprint readers built in to devices they are already carrying around with them, we offer an easy path to adoption and fundamentally more secure and more convenient authentication mechanism. It lets these healthcare providers focus on providing care to their patients rather than worrying about following best practices for managing passwords," said John Treiman, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at MedImpact. "MedImpact is using our pioneering FIDO Ready TM server to meet the challenge of providing stronger security than the traditional username/password mechanism," said Ramesh Kesanupalli, Founder and FIDO Visionary, Nok Nok Labs. "As our FIDO Ready capability comes pre-installed on some Samsung smartphones and Lenovo laptops and is available as an app for iOS devices, MedImpact's external user community can avoid the challenges typically associated with using high-security, multifactor authentication." "The FIDO Alliance welcomes MedImpact's announcement of their deployment of a FIDO solution and thanks them for their commitment to strong authentication in the interest of the online community of providers and users. MedImpact—like millions of websites, service providers, and relying parties—understands the need for a new model in user authentication that both confirms and protects user identity, while simplifying the user experience," said Dustin Ingalls, FIDO Alliance president. "Every organization that joins in the commitment to the FIDO specifications' groundbreaking approach reinforces the value of a collaborative ecosystem based on swift, intelligent authentication."
About MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. is the nation's largest privately held pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company, serving health plans, self-funded employers and government entities. Our business model is unique: avoiding conflicts of interest by not dispensing drugs. MedImpact is focused on effectively managing client pharmacy benefits to facilitate better trend management and improved outcomes. We work with clients to promote prescribing to the lowest-net-cost, medically appropriate drug. Our number one goal is client satisfaction by providing flexible solutions and consumer-driven products with a focus on lowest net cost and quality outcomes. Founded in 1989, MedImpact manages pharmacy benefits for more than 50 million lives in the US and abroad. For more information, go to http://www.medimpact.com.
About the FIDO Alliance The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance (https://www.fidoalliance.org), was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. The Alliance plans to change the nature of authentication by developing standardsbased specifications for simpler, stronger authentication that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that reduce reliance on passwords. FIDO authentication is stronger, private, and easier to use when authenticating to online services.
About Nok Nok Nok Nok Labs, Inc. (http://www.noknok.com), based in Palo Alto, CA, was founded to transform online authentication for modern computing. The company is backed by a team of security industry veterans from PGP, Netscape, Oracle, PayPal and Phoenix that have deep experience in building Internet scale security protocols and products. The company's ambition is to enable end-to-end trust across the web using authentication methods that are natural to end-to-end users and provide strong proof of identity.
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