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When the U.S. Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, among the law’s many provisions was the establishment of formal regulations designed to protect the confidentiality and security of patient information. Congress set a series of deadlines for healthcare institutions to comply with the new regulations, including an April 2005 deadline for compliance with the security requirements.

In response to these challenges, a growing number of healthcare institutions are turning to Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) solutions to help them comply with HIPAA’s security requirements. ESSO solutions require a user to remember and provide just one set of credentials—username and password or a fingerprint—to access the full portfolio of applications, data, and services for which that user is authorized.