data security and privacy
Before diving head first into the social media pool and put yourself at risk, jump in feet first and follow these tips from Luichi Robles, Senior Country Manager, Symantec Philippines, to protect your valuable business information.
When it comes to patient information, balancing the contradictory requirements of privacy and availability represents a significant challenge for IT in healthcare. It is no simple exaggeration to suggest that having the right information at the right time can mean the difference between life and death.
What is the gold standard in data security in the healthcare industry? For now, the oldest is HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Despite its American roots, HIPAA is showing influence in Asia because the many of technology solutions are from the US.
Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, notes that the Hong Kong government remains reluctant to monitor Internet traffic due to the potential of this action to be misconstrued as invasion of privacy. He sees cloud computing as changing the way outsourcing opportunities are being approached in the Territory.
Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. This F5 white paper discusses the need to secure the cloud and discusses how with F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.
In a move to reduce costs, the National Health Service (NHS) organizations began moving from leased lines to N3, a national DSL-based IP network, providing redundancy to 18,000 NHS sites. With confidential patient information being transported over public and shared Internet connections the NHS sought to implement a new solution to protect user data and meet industry compliance requirements.
St. Helens and Knowsley Health Informatics Service (HIS) serves about 12,000 users. In the wake of widely publicized breaches, government organizations throughout the U.K. face new mandates to protect private data. This case study describes how the HIS met requirements for securing data‐in‐motion by chooshing an Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliance from WatchGuard.
Midwest Eye Consultants (MWEC) operates 22 primary care offices, three surgical facilities, an optical lab, and a nursing home division throughout Indiana, offering optometry services, ophthalmological care, and eye surgeries. Having confidential patient means the company is subject to HIPAA regulations for data security and integrity.
Healthcare organizations today must manage two diametrically opposed sets of requirements: the practitioner’s need for ease of access to information versus the business’s need to apply increased privacy and security controls against that data.
Cloud computing is believed to allow computing capacity and capability to be added almost instantly, with no need to physically invest in new infrastructure or increase headcount. This is possible, but there are important policy and governance issues that must be understood for cloud to deliver on those promises.
