With help from Cloudworks, we have automated access control at the hospital. This saves us a lot of work and we avoid previous employees having access they no longer should have.
Magne Dahlberg, IT Director
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
The hospital is a local hospital for approximately 176,000 inhabitants in several districts in Oslo, providing services within internal medicine and psychiatry. Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital has extensive facilities for surgery as well as special functions like hospice and the National Oral Medicine Center, TAKO. The hospital has about 1300 FTEs.
Effective user management
In close collaboration with the hospital, Cloudworks developed a solution that manages access to the hospital’s professional applications and adjoining systems. The components developed in this collaboration are part of Cloudworks’ IDM Solution for Health Care: Cloudworks Healthcare IDM.
The core of the solution is a model that links information about the user’s employment, department and position together with the rights the user should have in the subject systems. This matrix is kept automatically updated and ensures that changes in employment conditions immediately affect user access. As a result, the IT department avoids manual handling of changes, saving the hospital for many hours of work – every single day.
HR-system is the source of truth
Integration with the HR system ensures consistency between employee information registered by the human resources department, and user identities and authorizations in the hospital’s various IT systems. This ensures fast and consistent process flow upon appointment and, more importantly, ensures that all permissions are removed at the end of the employment contract.
Integration with public registers
Through integration with the E-prescription and the Health Care Registry, the hospital uses central, public services and registers to provide a better and more effective service for its patients. When employing a healthcare professional, the solution automatically verifies that necessary permissions exist, and raises an alert if any discrepancies are detected among existing healthcare professionals.
