Wayne Memorial Hospital will be going live on Meditech CS 5.54 SR2 July, 2007.
We would like for our users not to have a separate password for Meditech from the one that gets them on the network, mail, internet, etc. Meditech will use the “NT” (Windows Domain) credentials based on how a user is logged into the PC, but this is done without prompting the user which is a security problem. Meditech does have the option to use a “PIN,” however, this is really just another thing for the users to remember (which is going the wrong direction). Now they would have to remember three things rather than just a username and password. Meditech has what it calls a “shared workstation” capability. A user (usually a generic user) must be logged onto a domain but that login must not match the login credentials used to authenticate to Meditech. When a user starts Meditech, an “NT” login prompt appears and a user can enter their own username and password as it exists on a second domain. ****WMH would like Meditech to prompt for the domain credentials regardless of how the PC is logged in.**** As a work-around, WMH is exploring using a tool which would replicate all of our users’ usernames and passwords into a new domain that would be used as the Meditech authentication domain. We would prefer not to have to support two domains; however, we see this as the only way for us to require users to remember only a single username and password under the constraints of Meditech. We are very interested in what experience other Meditech users have with NT Authentication and specifically, we would like to write a MIX Request where as many hospitals as possible would agree that they too would like the system to act in the same way with regard to authentication. Again, this is what we would like: ****When Meditech is started, it should prompt for the user’s Domain username and password. **** This should be done regardless of how the PC or user is or is not already authenticated. Detailed Notes on Functionality: 1) If a user presses Esc, then a user could enter a (non domain) Meditech username and password. This would enable the “old” login method to be used for exceptions like Meditech employees’ access to the system. 2) For exceptions like background job clients we would not want to loose the current functionality, so ideally, there would be a way based on username or device to allow the current automatic NT login method (with no prompt for username and password). Please reply to Tom Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager of Information Services Wayne Memorial Hospital Honesdale, PA 570-251-6504
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