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Are You Ready for a HIPAA Audit? Sure About That?

HIPAA security and privacy requirements are nothing new to healthcare - they have been part of doing business for years now. But the HITECH act, introduced in 2009, significantly raised the stakes. Learn about 9 solutions that can prepare you before any HIPAA audit occurs - without impacting your end users. By...

Why Protecting Email Content Protects HIPAA PHI

A former employee of Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the United States, posted confidential information about 140 patients on her blog. Stories of damaging security breaches resulting from intentional or inadvertent exposure of outbound content are all too familiar. They can result in breaches that risk your...

How Email Archiving Supports HIPAA Compliance

For Healthcare providers, archiving electronic content is a critical best practice that every organization should follow. It not only assures that you meet your legal obligations to retain patient and client information, it is necessary to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Surprisingly, some organizations...

Healthcare, HIPAA and Email Disaster Recovery

Email is the single most important tool in helping employees get work done in organizations of all types, including Healthcare providers and others entities subject to HIPAA requirements. That's why outages of even a few minutes in length can create numerous problems for individual email users and organizations that...

5 Ways to Use Security Intelligence to Pass Your HIPAA Audit

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that approximately 150 onsite audits will take place throughout 2012, making this a busy year for IT security professionals in the healthcare industry. Everyone is at risk of being audited so read through this ebook for tips on preparing for your...

Using Healthcare Machine Data for Operational Intelligence

Healthcare data is generated by numerous systems and in a wide variety of formats. Add to this an ever changing IT vendor technology landscape and it's no surprise that most healthcare applications do not conform to a single data format. With so many unique formats to contend with, managing this data and deriving...

Survey Says: Healthcare Leaders Ready to Focus on Information Security

The passage of the HITECH Act and adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are creating unprecedented amounts of digital health information. While EHRs offer many advantages for patients and providers, they also generate risks that must be managed effectively. A new survey of more than 500 healthcare executives...

Meaningful Use and Security Risk Analysis: Meeting the Measure

If your organization is planning to adopt Meaningful Use to gain Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payouts, avoid penalties, or build a stronger security position, you probably have questions about how to meet the measure. This white paper helps you understand what Meaningful Use means to your organization, and...

Five Ways to Use Security Intelligence to Pass Your HIPAA Audit

2012 is looking to be a busy year for IT Security professionals in the Healthcare industry. The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that approximately 150 onsite audits will take place throughout the year. Download this white paper to: Learn how Security Intelligence can help protect ePHI and...

Medical Alert for Hospitals: Celebrity Snooping Places PHI at Risk and Kills Your Reputation

Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

The State of Medical Image Archiving: A Survey for Healthcare IT Professionals

The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...

Don't Fear the Cloud

Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends: Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Risk Management and Compliance: Healthcare Best Practices Guide

Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...