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Medical Records on the Run: Protecting Healthcare Information Through Device Control and Data Encryption

As the electronic medical records revolution takes hold of the healthcare industry, the benefits and drawbacks of digitized health documentation are being revealed. On one hand, the convenience of putting this data online enables healthcare professionals to provide more collaborative and knowledgeable care by...

Six Critical Elements to Achieving Economies in Healthcare IT Security and Compliance

Healthcare organizations and their business partners are facing compliance trauma from every aspect of the business. Security and privacy regulations have been in place since 1996 within the United States with HIPAA, but for the first decade of its existence HIPAA had no teeth. Today, healthcare organizations face...

Evaluating HITECH's Impact on Healthcare Privacy & Security

Today's evolving threat landscape has made IT security a top priority for healthcare organizations. Top medical centers targeted by virus and advanced threats need a proactive approach to endpoint security. The HITECH Act further prioritizes privacy and security - with significant potential monetary benefit. Find...

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Healthcare IT Security

Maintaining the security of patient data is a complex proposition that affects every employee of a healthcare facility, every area of its IT system, and all vendors, partners, and insurers that work with the healthcare provider. While many facilities are working toward achieving full compliance with HIPAA,...

Data Protection for the Healthcare Industry

From medical records to insurance forms to prescription services, the healthcare business is becoming a networked environment that allows patient information to be shared and managed by a variety of resources and from a number of endpoints, each with their own level of security for protecting that information. Not...

Safeguarding Confidential Patient Data

Properly securing information technology (IT) infrastructure has never been more critical for organizations in the healthcare industry. Healthcare institutions, plan providers and life sciences organizations alike need to safeguard confidential corporate and patient data from internal and external threats, not only as...

Automated Fraud, Abuse, & Error Detection Analysis

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Sources of Fraud Savings from Prepayment to Postpayment

This white paper describes the three major areas of value delivered by FICO Insurance Fraud Manager: prepayment savings from avoiding unnecessary and excessive payments, systemic savings from identifying and correcting policy weaknesses, and postpayment savings from identification of suspicious providers. FICO...

HIPAA and HITECH Act Compliance Guide

When private medical records are breached, healthcare service providers suffer damage to their brand, reputation, loss of trust from their patients, and severe financial repercussions. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandates that appropriate administrative, technical, and...

How Can Fraud Models Combat New Tricks?

What if your fraud detection solution could teach itself to identify new fraud patterns? That's adaptive modeling. A "bolt-on" adaptive modeling layer works as a secondary analytic layer with fraud detection systems that use past transactional and case disposition data to significantly improve fraud detection. The...

Global Security Threats & Trends: Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report

Cisco Security Intelligence Operations announces the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report. The updated report includes information about 2009 global threats and trends, as well as security recommendations for 2010. Managing and securing today's distributed and agile network is increasingly challenging, with cloud...

Prioritizing Security Activities within Healthcare Organizations

Take a business-level view of security and risk management, so you can prioritize security activities and focus on those that make the most strategic sense. With this white paper, learn to direct resources to mitigate risk and costs, and see how IBM enterprise security can optimize business results.

Why You Need a Next-Generation Firewall

Next-generation (NG) firewalls, with features such as deep packet inspection, intrusion detection, application identification, and granular control, are important weapons in the battle against hacking and malware. Mobile applications have taken the overall scheme of corporate IT, and NG firewalls enable organizations...

Information Security Threat Report

In 2013 much attention was focused on cyber-espionage, threats to privacy and the acts of malicious insiders. However, the end of 2013 provided a painful reminder that cybercrime remains prevalent and that damaging threats from cybercriminals continue to loom over businesses and consumers. Eight breaches in 2013 each...

Symantec Report: Layered Defense

Businesses are at war with hackers. It is vital that all businesses incorporate a reliable projection system that constantly updates and looks for new threats to achieve the best defense possible against attackers. With attacks becoming more common, more serious and harder to detect, traditional antivirus software...