HIPAA COMPLIANCE

Since 1996, healthcare organizations that manage PHI have been subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a law designed to standardize electronic data interchanges and protect the confidentiality and security of health data. HIPAA requires that healthcare providers ensure a secure and safe transfer of patient records as well as control access to all patient/employee healthcare information.

THE WEBSENSE SOLUTION

Healthcare organizations need to enforce Web, messaging and data security policies to prevent misuse of their Internet and email access. Proactive Web filtering can prevent employees from soaking up valuable network bandwidth with unauthorized or inappropriate activity. Failure to control use can leave the organization open to legal liability or enable unsuspecting employees to inadvertently allow spyware or malware onto their employers' systems. Inbound threats like spam and malware as well as outbound leaks, whether malicious or accidental, can result in a security breach that jeopardizes confidential patient or personnel records. Only Websense solutions keep the information of healthcare organizations safe and employees productive on any network, anytime and anywhere.

With Essential Information Protection from Websense, healthcare providers can:

• Help protect protected health information (PHI), while ensuring that the same information is available when and where it is needed
• Provide employers with the tools to manage who can do what with sensitive patient information, where it can go, and how it can get there
• Avoid the costs of inadvertent disclosure due to external threats or internal leaks
• Prevent security breaches that may cause patients to lose trust in their care-givers while opening the door for regulatory violations and potentially expensive lawsuits.