HID Global and Dell announced a partnership to combine technologies for the health care market.

HID Global has provided OMNIKEY 5321 readers for use with Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution, which offers security through a single authentication with their own ID badge. The solution enables health care providers to have secure access to authorized data and applications without the need to memorize different login IDs and passwords to hospital systems or external solutions.

Besides the signature and authentication features, Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution consists of two pillars – cross-platform virtualization and mobility equipment. The purpose of Mobile Clinical Computing solution is to bring mobility to the hospital, save time, improve the quality of patient care, and increase hospital’s operational productivity up to 25%.

With a dual interface, HID Global’s OMNIKEY 5321 reader is for external use via USB and supports 13.56 MHz contactless iCLASS and MIFARE cards that follow ISO 14443 A/B and ISO 15693 standards. The reader enables users the security of contactless technology for different applications including login to Windows, networks, web sites and applications for the secure storage of user names, passwords and personal information.