SIGABA SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS

The technology revolution in healthcare continues, streamlining business practices and enhancing efficiency while improving patient outcomes. With the spread of Internet use, of course, healthcare communications have gone online, too. And, as in so many sectors, the growth in online healthcare communications has put a premium on secure communications. Through the use of email and other applications, healthcare organizations can enjoy low-cost, immediate interchange of information with both patients and other health service providers. But that information interchange must be conducted without the risk of security breaches or interception of sensitive personal information.

Sigaba's solutions maximize the benefits of electronic communications for healthcare organizations while reducing the risks.

IMPROVE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY

Streamlined business practices take advantage of the Internet for timely, accurate communication of medical diagnoses, patient records, prescriptions and more, at a fraction of the cost of paper-based systems. With Sigaba-enabled secure electronic communications, healthcare organizations can rule out transcription errors, illegible handwriting and misplaced paper documents.

REDUCE RISK

Sigaba's flexible solutions ensure the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive information communicated on internal networks, with other HCOs, and with patients even via mobile, wireless devices. Information can't be tampered with when in transit, and is readable only by authorized, authenticated recipients.

ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE QUICKLY, EASILY AND AFFORDABLY

Achieving compliance with patient information privacy regulations doesn't have to be a multimillion-dollar, multi-year exercise. Authentication, authorization, integrity, encryption, non-repudiation and auditing requirements can be met simply and economically with Sigaba's software and services. From the smallest hospitals to the largest healthcare providers, Sigaba provides healthcare organizations of all kinds with a quick, painless way to protect patient privacy.

BUILD SECURE COMMUNITIES

Healthcare is all about communities. By the same token, when many different organizations - physician's office, pharmacy, lab, hospital, emergency care center - hold a patient's personal information, the possibility of inadvertent disclosure or misuse is multiplied accordingly. With Sigaba's federated authentication, such organizations can maintain only the information that's most relevant to each, without the need to duplicate sensitive information in multiple locations. The benefit is two-fold: not only is patient privacy and confidentiality preserved, but the liability of each organization is dramatically reduced. Only Sigaba enables healthcare organizations to reduce risk while providing enhanced information-sharing across the communities of which they are a part.

A NOTE ON HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) now includes security and privacy regulations requiring that all individually-identifiable health care information be protected to ensure privacy and confidentiality when electronically stored, maintained or transmitted. Firewalls and conventional network security solutions can help secure content stored on an individual network. But protecting that information once it has left the network requires an additional layer of security on the messages themselves. And this security must be applied not only to communications between healthcare organizations and their patients, but also among healthcare organizations themselves. In other words, whenever patient-identifiable information is sent across the Internet, it must be secured.

HELPFUL DOCUMENTATION

Sigaba Secure Email for HIPAA Compliance Data Sheet
Addressing HIPAA Compliance Issues White Paper