Challenge
IT initiatives in the healthcare sector are built around two overarching directives: to maintain the confidentiality of patient health records and to quantify and act on inherent risks to the confidentiality of those records in the event of a breach. The sector's predominant standard, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), is exhaustive in its implications for healthcare providers - providing critical guidance for protecting their most valuable asset, the patient.
HIPAA requires businesses handling Electronic Patient Health Information (EPHI) to take reasonable steps to ensure that this information remains secure. Healthcare practices know that they need to become and remain compliant, but are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of conditions placed on them - among those, lengthy lists of administrative, physical and technical safeguards for ensuring patient-record confidentiality. Also faced with the dense legalese that makes up HIPAA, providers often wonder if the costs to become compliant will be prohibitive, if they have the expertise needed to achieve compliance and if they'll be able maintain it past the initial audit.
Solution
FishNet Security's trusted-advisor approach to enabling healthcare organizations to achieve and maintain compliance and security has led some of the world's leading healthcare organizations to trust us as their primary security and compliance provider. FishNet Security's experienced experts and their real-world knowledge of which solutions can be used to create the most secure and compliant networks has enabled customers to leap into the digital healthcare revolutions with confidence. Our consultants become an extension of our customers' teams and quickly implement solutions that support their information security and compliance objectives while maximizing effectiveness and staff efficiencies.