HIPAA: Protecting Healthcare Data
The global healthcare industry is experiencing a new surge of technology adoption. Healthcare payers, providers, and others are increasingly relying on HIPAA - coupled with changes to this critical healthcare law mandated by the HITECH Act and other pending regulations - to improve healthcare data standards, ensure greater interoperability between healthcare payers and providers, and provide consumers with extensive visibility into how their personal healthcare data is used.
But while improved transparency and healthcare service quality are important goals, healthcare faces new challenges as well. As debate over healthcare technology heats up, the need to implement effective controls to protect sensitive data becomes even more critical. Even organizations that have maintained HIPAA standards for many years are evaluating their level of compliance with this regulation again, in light of recent significant audits that have preceded multi-million dollar sanctions against well-known healthcare payers and providers Healthcare organizations affected by HIPAA face significant challenges, including:
 Unique Risks and Threats. In the healthcare industry it's no understatement to claim that a diagnosis or treatment based on inaccurate or missing data can be a life-or-death matter.
Significant Audit Oversight. Continuous scrutiny means information security personnel must be able to quickly identify and report on the protection of healthcare data.
Media Scrutiny. With today's mandatory data breach notification requirements, failure to properly protect data can result in a loss of reputation, money, and jobs.
So Much More than Log Data
HIPAA's information security standards require organizations to have visibility across a broad range of enterprise security information: system configurations, operating system and application logs, network flow data, vulnerability data, and even system performance metrics. Many organizations think that security information and event management (SIEM) or simple log management software is enough to meet HIPAA security reporting requirements, but it's not: in fact, SIEM and/or log management only address a small piece of the HIPAA puzzle, because these solutions are limited primarily to log and event data - only one of many types of security data required for comprehensive HIPAA security compliance. Other organizations may have multiple security point solutions to address a broader set of HIPAA requirements, but have no method to bring together data from these many different products into a single platform - an approach that leaves security and compliance personnel blind to the big picture of security and compliance across the enterprise.
HIPAAVue: Comprehensive HIPAA Compliance Auditing
HIPAAVue from eIQnetworks is a turnkey package that provides comprehensive information security management and HIPAA security compliance reporting from a single console. Using an integrated data model, HIPAAVue goes beyond traditional SIEM products, log management tools, and other security point solutions by providing users with the ability to:
Collect, correlate, archive, analyze and report on all information required by HIPAA security standards: log, event, vulnerability, configuration, asset, performance and network flow data
Instantly access a library of over 150 custom reports mapped directly to relevant portions of the latest HIPAA security standards rule
Measure overall HIPAA security compliance to identify the why, when, where and how of violations and provide the information required for remediation.
HIPAAVue from eIQnetworks brings together all of the information security data from across your enterprise into a ''single pane of glass', for complete visibility into HIPAA security compliance and operations. HIPAAVue enables users to gain enterprise-wide analysis of all security data related to the HIPAA security standard, including asset and configuration data, logs and events, system vulnerabilities, network flows, and system performance. From comprehensive HIPAA security reporting, to hands-on security operations, HIPAAVue provides organizations with the most comprehensive HIPAA security compliance solution available in a single platform.
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