Solutions for Healthcare

Overview

Like other verticals, the healthcare sector relies on digital communications and computer applications to increase productivity and improve efficiency. Unlike other verticals, the healthcare industry must take additional steps to ensure that sensitive patient information and valuable research data remain secure. These security needs are even more critical in light of the U.S. government's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which strictly governs the transmittal, storage, access and usage of patient data.

Additionally, healthcare professionals require timely access to confidential patient information in order to provide the highest quality care. In some cases, the ability to quickly access information is the difference between life and death. Healthcare providers shoulder the primary responsibility for this secure access. Any solution providing access to these secure records must be ubiquitous and easy-to-use while providing powerful and robust security technology that authenticates users and assigns access privileges, while refusing to admit those not entitled to specific data.

Secure communication via VPN allows medical professionals in different hospitals or even at opposite ends of the world to collaborate on treatment by sharing patients’ medical histories and charts.. Today's networking, remote access and Web-based technologies enable such sophisticated cooperation. With these new capabilities, however, come new challenges in the effort to maintain patient privacy.

Hospitals can also reap the benefits of electronic communications by streamlining purchasing with electronic procurement systems that allow vendors to automatically fulfill inventory and compete online for tenders. The savings and efficiencies can be enormous, but without proper safeguards problems may arise. Systems must rely on digital identity systems to ensure that only authorized vendors access back-office systems and submit invoices through digital identities.

SafeNet provides solutions that address these problems with a comprehensive suite of security products.

SafeNet Luna products for Digital Identity Solutions:

• Luna Hardware Security Modules
• iKey – Personal USB Identity Token

SafeNet products for Digital Communication Solutions:

• SafeEnterprise SSL iGate – SSL VPN Appliance
• HighAssurance Gateway – Scalable IPSEC VPN gateways
• Luna SA for SSL – SSL Accelerator

SafeNet products for data security and integrity:

• Luna Hardware Security Modules
• iKey - Personal USB identity token

SafeNet product for secure electronic transaction solutions:

• Luna SA - High-performance network attached HSM
• Luna SP - Java application security appliance