Presideo, Verisign partner, gain Medquist as customerPresideo, a firm specializing in digital identity management in healthcare, and Verisign, a firm concentrating on security infrastructure for e-business, have partnered to provide services to
Presideo, a firm specializing in digital identity management in healthcare, and Verisign, a firm concentrating on security infrastructure for e-business, have partnered to provide services to the healthcare industry. Verisign will combine its 24/7 managed trust services infrastructure with Presideos identity management products to develop online physician credentialing; biometric authentication; interoperability services; and a policy, legal, and business framework specific to healthcare. Presideo and Verisign will jointly market these security services.
The firms have already sold Medquist, a transcription services vendor owned by Philips, on their joint offering. Medquist will embed Internet security infrastructure and digital certificates into existing products and Medquist.net products.
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