FishNet Security announced today it will collaborate with Microsoft Corp. to provide new software functionality that enables health system customers to provision clinical applications through Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010).

“For healthcare providers, the integration between identity management platforms and clinical applications plays an important role in improving caregiver effectiveness,” said Phil Lentz, chief identity strategist at FishNet Security. “Efficiencies are a result of fewer IDs and passwords, ‘zero day’ account set-up for newly hired caregivers, enablement of caregivers to reset their own passwords, and the establishment of the correct clinical system access demanded by a caregiver’s job responsibilities.” Read more here…