Secure PC Access

 Health staff uses PCs usually in a different way than users in other branches. Very often, a health professional only needs to access his PC for a short time (e.g. to check some values), before he continues with other work. On the other hand, healthcare data must be processed with a high security standard. For these reasons, PC access in a medical environment must be both highly convenient and highly secure.

cryptovision has realized medical PC access solutions many times. These solutions are usually based on smart cards, which is very secure. To maximize convenience, it is possible to use contactless smart cards (a PIN is advisable, but can be omitted for convenience reasons). Using Single Sign-on, the medical users need not worry about logging in to applications. With terminal servers, a user can even start a session on one PC and continue it on another one. Reactivating a session is usually just a matter of seconds.

 

Electronic Health Card

The German Electronic Healthcard (EGK) is not rolled out yet to a larger number of users. Anyway, many enterprises and authorities already prepare themselves for supporting the EGK. A crucial part of every EGK-related implementation is the smart card middleware. The smart card middleware connects the card with the application, which may run on several platforms. Without a smart card middleware supporting several operating systems, it is impossible to use a health insurance card in its full potential.

cryptovision's cv act sc/interface is one of the most powerful smart card middleware solutions on the market, and it is an ideal tool to connect the EGK to an application system. Especially cv act sc/interface can be used to realize digital signatures, which is an interesting function of the EGK. In addition, cv act sc/interface is also suitable for other health insurance cards, as long as they have standard interfaces.