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Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

The Business Case for Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Ounce Labs, is the first study to determine what senior executives think about the value proposition of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. In times of shrinking budgets, it is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

Astaro now ensures that the network is running smoothly and the entire organization has become more productive through content filtering.

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) serves as the clinical arm for research and treatment studies for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington Medicine, and Seattle Children’s. The organization’s outsourced IT service desk operated adequately, but a desire for financial savings, enriched customer relationships, and improved HIPAA compliance drove SCCA to seek out another solution.

This white paper from Symantec™ Health provides a guide for IT departments as they examine their current image archiving strategy and explore new options. It summarizes challenges, existing approaches, and the benefits of cloudbased archiving approaches.

The US healthcare industry has historically lagged behind others in the maturity of security capabilities, only recently catching up on data security and privacy in response to HIPAA. But there is a wide range of other mounting risks unique to healthcare that S&R pros in healthcare can’t ignore — greater regulatory pressure, increasing targeted attacks, the frightening uncertainty of IoT security, and global economic pressures. This report outlines the most important security capabilities for security leaders in this sector to implement in the face of these challenges.

The OCR conducts HIPAA audits of covered entities and their business associates and subcontractors. If HIPAA violations are discovered during these audits, the OCR will implement significant penalties. Additionally, since OCR is posting the details of every breach affecting 500 or more individuals on a public website1 , the organizations involved have become susceptible to class-action lawsuits.

This paper, the second in a series addressing four key challenges of healthcare reform, focuses on actions you can take now to streamline core administrative processes to drive efficiency and reduce costs.

Carolinas HealthCare System was growing, and as claim volumes mounted, claim error rates doubled. Find out how they recovered $8 million, brought claim edit backlog to zero, and reduced claim edits by 97 percent.

Adventist Health System was troubled by inconsistent billing practices and disparate systems across seven central billing offices. Find out how they reduced time-to-payment by 17 percent -- bringing days in accounts receivable to an all-time low -- by standardizing processes and improving workflow with RealMed (now known as Availity Revenue Cycle Management).

Asheville Anesthesia Associates faced a growing accounts receivable file and a payment collection process that was too slow. Learn how they used RealMed (now known as Availity Revenue Cycle Management) to reduce time-to-payment by 75 percent, and reduce their average days in A/R by 62.5 percent.

American Health Network faced one of the most vexing problems in health care: Claim denials. Learn how this physician-owned practice realized an ROI of 200 percent and recovered $1.4 million.

"Big Data" is the latest buzzword, yet over 70% of companies don't know what Big Data means and how to solve the data management challenges, finds LogLogic survey.

IANS CUSTOM RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SECURITY INVESTMENT ANALYSIS (ISIA) REPORT on Log data management and compliance products

Garnering critical IT insight helps organizations and individuals make the right decisions to better serve customers, partners, regulatory bodies and internal employees and answer many important business challenges. This whitepaper describes LogLogic's philosophy and evolution of IT Data Management.

The guide to how SQL Server 2008 end-of-service can drive IT modernization. End-of-service presents serious risks to your organisation if you don’t deal with it correctly—or worse—if you don’t deal with it at all, including the loss of access to critical security updates and Microsoft hotfixes. Also, if you don’t take action, your organisation will be exposed to potential disruption from hackers and malware. That means valuable customer data could be exposed to attack, risking monetary and reputational damage. And from a regulatory standpoint, there could be compliance issues with rules such as HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR. On the other hand, if you take well-considered action that aligns with your long-term strategy, end-of-service is also an opportunity for data estate modernisation. In this e-book, we’ll discuss how migration to Azure as part of your fix for SQL Server 2008 end-of-service solves for all these, and opens doors for the future of your data-driven business.

Data—dynamic, in demand and distributed—is challenging to secure. But you need to protect sensitive data, whether it’s stored on premises, off-site, or in big-data, private- or hybrid-cloud environments. Protecting sensitive data can take many forms, but nearly any organization needs to keep its data accessible, protect data from loss or compromise, and comply with a raft of regulations and mandates. These can include the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Even in the cloud, where you may have less immediate control, you must still control your sensitive data—and compliance mandates still apply.

Give your clinicians access to a single, secure and HIPAA compliant workspace. Using their laptop, tablet or smartphone, they can quickly access patient data on the go, while you retain control of your devices.

To best address HIPAA compliance, maintain productivity, and mitigate risk in the mobile age, HIPAA-regulated enterprises need to ensure high standards of data security and privacy on all endpoint devices that contain or have access to protected health information (PHI). Get this white paper to learn: What HIPAA means for data on endpoint devices Features you should look for when evaluating endpoint backup solutions How to maintain HIPAA compliance whether data is stored on-premise or in the cloud What other organizations are doing to comply with HIPAA/HITECH

There is increasing urgency for organizations today to comply with regional data protection regulations or face potential financial and legal repercussions, and customer backlash. This awareness is heightened by recent headlines related to data breaches, rising risks of BYOD, and other privacy lapses that have bottom line and reputational consequences. Learn how to prepare for this new world of data privacy with actionable advice for senior IT leaders addressing data privacy concerns in their organizations. This paper covers key issues to consider when it comes to protecting corporate and employee data privacy, including: Sectorial regulations, including HIPAA and FINRA Evolving Data Protection Acts in EU countries with a strong focus on citizen privacy, data residency requirements, and concerns over data production BYOD policies blurring the lines between personal and business data Internal controls for safeguarding PII & PHI

Find out how Blue Lane's unique approach can help health care IT pros quickly secure hard to patch servers.

Many CIOs are looking to implement the power of Cloud computing, but they don't know where to begin. How do you take full advantage of this technology and implement the correct strategy for your environment? What services should you offer via the Cloud? Read the paper, "Cloud Computing In Perspective," by BMC Software Chief Technology Officer Kia Behnia.

The vital information CIOs need to ensure that their text messaging is both secure and in compliance with the current regulations.

The Imprivata 2014 Desktop Virtualization Trends in Healthcare report is the company’s fourth-annual study to identify desktop virtualization adoption trends in healthcare.

Healthcare providers are starting to realize that using electronic communication, collaboration, and social networks to keep in touch with each other and with patients can improve the quality of care they provide. However, it also exposes them to risk since the information they share on these networks has to be protected in order to meet specific regulatory guidelines, like those mandated by HIPAA. The prescription for success is to consider compliant use of these networks before and while they are being used and the technology that helps achieve that goal. Read this paper to gain an understanding of: What the regulatory landscape of the healthcare industry looks like What concerns you should be aware of from a legal perspective