Mark Brown was hearing rumors about contactless cards. The buzz around the Vanderbilt University Medical Center was that proximity cards were the next step in hospital security and data protection, but Brown wasn’t satisfied with the idea of using Prox – the Vanderbilt Card Office Manager made a move for smart cards for both the university and the hospital.
"If we were going to roll out a new system, I wanted secure technology, not something that could be approaching its end of life,” says Brown. “The HID iCLASS card system worked well with our existing ID management platform, so we could focus our energy and budget on a slow migration from magstripe student IDs to smart card badges without having to run two systems.”