Integrations? What is being connected and why should I care?
Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft technology that helps IT administrators to keep track of users (and computers) and provide a method for them to prove their identity in order to access restricted resources.
Customers can now integrate MEG’s software with their organisation’s existing user-authentication system allowing users to log into MEG using their hospital network credentials (e.g. username and password).
Now faster & Easier to LOGin to MEG
In the UK earlier this year, the government announced it was providing £40 million to transform slow login times, one of the main technology frustrations facing NHS staff.
With some staff needed to log into as many as 15 different systems, this can be very time consuming. Also, it means staff need to remember multiple complex passwords or use the same one on multiple systems, which is potentially a cybersecurity risk.
A single sign-on (SSO) technology project recently implemented in Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, and made possible with Active Directory integration, saw time spent logging in to multiple computer systems reduced from 1 minute 45 seconds to just *10 seconds.
The Active Directory integration will significantly simplify the process of accessing MEG’s system for users. It eliminates the need to remember separate MEG login details. Instead, users are automatically logged into MEG when they login to their hospital/organisation’s network.
Active Directory simplifies the use of MEG’s system for admins
Hospital admins who previously controlled access/set permission levels in MEG, set up users and created individual log-in credentials will now find backend account management much more streamlined. New users (or users with updated permissions) are now automatically logged in and are ‘known’ to MEG immediately in terms of what functionality they have access to.
ENABLES ALignMENT with current hospital security protocols
The integration also ensures only persons previously authenticated and known to the hospital/organisation can gain access to content and functionality.
As users and/or groups are added and removed from Active Directory, as in the case of someone leaving an organisation, these changes are also reflected (i.e. access given or revoked) in MEG’s app too.
*https://www.gov.uk/government/news/40-million-investment-to-reduce-nhs-staff-login-times