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Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

The Three Pillars of Trust: Adopting a New Service Architecture for Trusted Transactions with Government on the Internet

All organizations - including federal agencies - must leverage technologies that exist today to secure online transaction systems for E-Gov. Until now, fragmented silos of security technologies have been used to protect individual applications, data, or users. In a world of Webconnected smart phones and interactive...

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Mitigating Security Risk in the Cloud

Interest in cloud computing is on the rise, but security concerns linger. This white paper addresses how to mitigate those risks, including: Developing a secure, holistic infrastructure that encompasses both physical and virtual computing systems; Establishing high-level information security policies for...

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Embracing Clouds, Avoiding Storms

Organizations investigating cloud computing must consider many different options, including public, private and hybrid clouds. And each approach poses different risks. This white paper addresses: Choosing a cloud computing solution; Addressing the risks associated with moving to the cloud; Planning IT services...

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Don't Fear the Cloud

Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends: Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Risk Management and Compliance: Healthcare Best Practices Guide

Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...

Mitigating Insider Threats With Internal Monitoring

Given the threat and compliance environments, Internal Segmentation (also known as internal firewalling) is a growing trend that requires organizations to improve their internal monitoring of data. These solutions control data within the corporate network and actively enforce data access policies for internal staff...

Segmenting Cardholder Data to Meet PCI Requirements

Segmenting in-scope PCI resources from an organization's IT infrastructure using traditional methods is quite challenging. Many have struggled with firewalls as a means of internal segmentation by inserting them in front of in-scope systems. While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter,...

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Medical Image Archiving - Reducing the Cost and Complexity

In the healthcare industry, medical image archives are growing exponentially. More studies, larger studies, longer retention, and new modalities are all driving the dramatic increase in storage needs. Facing this growth, healthcare information technology (IT) departments are seeking a way to reduce image archiving...

Cyber 2020: Asserting Global Leadership in the Cyber Domain

How should the United States respond as global competitors expand their influence over the Internet and build cyber capabilities? An analysis of the Internet in 2020 shows that the United States must develop a strategy that focuses on more than technology to retain its cyberpower status. Read this white paper and...

Critical Data Management Issues in the Health Care Industry

Today, healthcare organizations and their partners outside of healthcare need to tightly control access to data. Why? Tougher government requirements Tougher patient data management regulations The risk of data breaches The increase in legal actions This Quest Software white paper explains the critical...

Five Key Considerations for Enabling Privacy in Health Information Exchanges

The emergence of health information exchanges is widely expected to provide a range of important benefits for patients, physicians, and the healthcare industry as a whole. In an effort to foster the development of these exchanges and facilitate a move to electronic health records, the U.S. government passed the Health...

Ensuring Security, Privacy and Compliance While Creating Value with Healthcare IT: A Step by Step Guide to Deploying Risk Management Programs

Economic necessity and global competitiveness are among the factors driving U.S. healthcare organizations to adopt more value-oriented, performance-driven approaches to delivering patient care. Information Technology (IT) can play a key role in this transition provided that it is viewed as a means to create value...

Create Your Natural Advantage - Integrating Desktop Power Savings with Patch Management

Organizations stand to save themselves a significant amount of money by managing the power consumption of their IT systems. But if they aren't careful, they could potentially save their way right into a security and operational nightmare. When power management is not centralized nor built into your overall IT...