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Healthcare providers make attractive targets for cyber criminals attempting to steal valuable personal information. The advances in healthcare technology and electronic health records (EHR) systems also introduce new security challenges.

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HIPAA and HITECH

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) exact stiff penalties for failing to secure protected health information (PHI); however, meeting a compliance audit checklist is not the best approach to reducing risk and preventing a breach. Hospitals and healthcare providers need a proactive strategy for managing patient information securely and meeting compliance mandates along the way. Sword & Shield professional security experts can help.

A Risk-based Approach to meeting PCI Compliance

If part of your business requires you to receive payment via credit cards and process, store or transmit that credit card information to your bank, compliance regulations will require you to provide evidence that the credit card information is secure. You may have only a few or several points of sale locations for which you are responsible. Sword & Shield is a certified PCI QSA with services to assist you regardless of your designated merchant level.

Securely Connecting the Remote Employee or Contractor

More and more the work of healthcare organizations is being done remotely by either full and part time employees or contractors. Certainly in times of potential pandemic outbreaks or disasters, quick response to protect and respond is critical. Accessing, processing or transmitting patient information must be done in a secure manner.  Sword and Shield can assist you in designing and implementing remote solutions that protect this sensitive information.

Practical Services to Reduce Risk and Become Secure and Compliant

We offer proven, practical services that balance compliance requirements with an effective program to prevent security threats.

Healthcare Security Solutions Benefits of the Sword & Shield Approach
Security Risk and Compliance Streamlines costs by managing risk and security strategically, instead of a tactical, bottom-up approach
PCI Compliance Streamlines achievement of PCI compliance for all your POS locations regardless of merchant level.
Incident Response Provides rapid response when you suspect someone has compromised private information for which you are responsible.
Forensic Investigations Reduces workload on the IT department from time consuming electronic investigation and insures that evidence is preserved and admissible in a court of law.
Security Testing Reduces risks that someone with the intent to do harm could bypass security controls and gain access to sensitive information ”
eDiscovery Bridges the knowledge gap between IT and corporate counsel when producing electronic evidence and expert witness in litigation.
Web Security Testing Provides peace of mind that your web applications, whether developed in house or by a service provider, are not easily breached by those with the intent to do harm.
Secure Portable Workspace Prevent data leakage from the mobile worker

Real Success Story

A Sword & Shield healthcare client had been exercising their due diligence in testing the security controls of their external and internal network using Sword & Shield analysts and had difficulty securing sufficient budget to address some of the security concerns. Sword & Shield provided a risk assessment and gap analysis against the HIPAA security requirements and uncovered some serious matters that needed to be addressed in defining roles and responsibilities, policies and technical remediation required to meet HIPAA compliance. A risk based approach got the attention of executive level management and the project was funded.

To Talk to a Security Analyst

Sword & Shield has been outsmarting cybercriminals, improving security and helping enterprises meet compliance around the world since 1997. To learn more about our HIPAA compliance services and our other areas of expertise, please Request a Consult or contact us at 800-810-1885 or 865-244-9500 today.

 

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