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Healthcare Security Solutions
The Healthcare industry is a challenging environment in which to provide effective security, with growing pressures to meet strict budgets and regulations it is becoming ever more complex for healthcare organisations to ensure patient care is not compromised as a result. A balance between procedural effectiveness and patient care has to be upheld, especially as today’s healthcare authorities face increasing pressures to meet the standards of competitive healthcare organisations, changing regulations, as well as patient confidentiality.
With security issues comprising of identity verification, confidentiality and privacy, healthcare organisations including healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals and laboratories have to ensure all forms of communications and documents are kept secure.
Organisation Drivers
As a highly paper intensive and budget restricted industry, healthcare organisations are striving to achieve greater efficiency by automating business processes, streamlining communications and reducing the volume of paperwork - increasing customer satisfaction levels, whilst ensuring their network infrastructure remains secure. Customers are more conscious about the protection of their personal data, even more so within healthcare organisations which hold highly confidential details regarding an individual’s medical status.
Regulatory Compliance
All healthcare organisations have to comply with numerous Government stipulated regulations regarding security of networks, documents and information. These include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Food & Drug Administration Code of Federal Regulations (FDA CFR) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). It is therefore significantly important that healthcare organisations have the necessary security policies in place to allow these regulations to be firmly met.
HIPAA 1996 - set national standards regarding privacy and security of medical records designed to improve the efficiency of the healthcare system by encouraging widespread use of electronic data interchange, rather than by paper based methods. HIPAA requires healthcare organisations to conduct thorough IT risk assessment as well as develop and implement a plan for improving and maintaining security.
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 1997 - defines the principle of which electronic records and digital signatures are considered to be trustworthy, reliable and equivalent to paper records. These standards for use of electronic records and digital signatures were introduced as a response to soaring costs associated with managing the distribution, storage and retrieval of records – particularly in the healthcare industry where budget could to be allocated to more beneficial resources. Additionally, security concerns surrounding wet ink signatures emerged as it became evident that these signatures including the content they were assigned to could be easily falsified.
SOX 2002 - requires publicly listed companies to implement and maintain increased controls with regards to financial reporting processes in response to serious accounting scandals of the past. Public organisations must provide an annual internal control report stating the responsibility of management for establishing and maintaining an adequate internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting.
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Adobe CDS provides a more secure and reliable form of document exchange, enabling documents to retain their integrity while recipients can determine the documents authenticity and authorship. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 reports paperwork represent 31% of all health care costs. CDS can help relieve the burden on physicians surrounding cumbersome processes involving patient paper-work while remaining HIPPA and CFR 21 Part 11 compliant.
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CorporateRA
CorporateRA is GlobalSign's immediately deployable, low-cost, fully managed service designed to issue and support large quantities of Digital ID Certificates. It enables healthcare authorities to manage the lifecycle of Digital ID Certificates, identity management for authentication as well as secure email and access control. Authorities are able to issue, defer and revoke GlobalSign Certificates cost effectively within minutes, and manage Registration Authority tasks via an easy-to-use secure web-based interface.
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Trusted Root
Healthcare Authorities operating their own Microsoft CA or in-house CA can chain their Root CA Certificates to the widely distributed and highly trusted GlobalSign Root CA Certificate, thereby eliminating costly “not trusted” errors and immediately benefiting from the trust associated with GlobalSign and its 10 year+ long relationships with all the browsers, application and operating system vendors. Trusted Root from GlobalSign allows the organisation to retain full control over Registration Authority functions whilst eliminating significant support costs.
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