Healthcare Security and Risk Assessment

DeepNines Healthcare Solutions

The healthcare security and risk assessment sections of HIPAA for compliance are huge challenges for healthcare providers today, who are struggling to use and take advantage of Web 2.0 and its online applications and tools, while ensuring HIPAA compliance. Healthcare security and risk assessment is a key element to HIPAA compliance and general privacy and security. According to the latest CMS (Centers for MEDICARE and MEDICAID Services) report on healthcare security and HIPAA compliance, most HIPAA compliance audits failed, placing the lack of perform risk assessments and currency of policies and procedures as major contributors http://www.cms.hhs.gov/informationsecurity. “[Health care organizations] should develop and formally document a policy requiring the completion of a periodic risk assessment covering all systems and applications which store, process, or transmit ePHI,” according to CMS.

Beyond HIPAA compliance, and the healthcare security and risk assessment sections, providers and payers have complex problems with the Web and the threats, risks and costs it presents. Threat prevention is always important, but healthcare organizations also have to manage costs more than most industries – making bandwidth management, content filtering and application control critical to keeping costs low and improving security.

DeepNines provides the necessary protection and control for healthcare organizations to fully utilize the Web for electronic medical records, communications and education with cost savings and healthcare security and risk assessment of HIPAA. With in-depth network security and protection, as well as the ability to prevent data leakage of protected health information (PHI), DeepNines Web Security ensures that your Web traffic is HIPAA compliance and secure. With granular control of network activity, DeepNines manages your bandwidth, applications and content to ensure your network is optimized for the best patient care and safety. For healthcare security and risk assessment compliance, please contact DeepNines about our Internet Security Assessment service that is affordable and timely.

Key Benefits:

• Protects confidential patient information
• Reduces gaps in security while improving productivity
• Easy to manage with granular reporting options
• Supports higher quality care and cuts costs by utilizing the power of the Internet
• Provides protection from Web threats, zero-hour threats and network attacks such as DoS
• Takes action immediately on all inbound and outbound traffic to ensure total network protection and control over data and records