HIPAA Email Whitepaper: Proofpoint's Healthcare Privacy Solution

How Proofpoint Helps You Comply with HIPAA

While compliance dates for various HIPAA rules have already passed, many healthcare-related organizations are still working to achieve full compliance with HIPAA. For example, a January 2006 survey of more than 300 healthcare providers and payers found that only about half of healthcare providers reported that they are now compliant with the HIPAA Security standards.

This Proofpoint whitepaper describes—in detail—how Proofpoint’s Healthcare Privacy Solution can help organizations maintain the privacy and security of electronic protected health information (ePHI) over e-communications channels (including SMTP email, HTTP and FTP protocols). Additionally, it highlights the solution’s ability to accurately differentiate between ePHI and “de-identified” health information, in order to properly enforce privacy policies and achieve or improve compliance with guidelines set forth in HIPAA.

Download this whitepaper from Proofpoint, Inc. to learn:

How Proofpoint's Healthcare Privacy Solution applies to the HIPAA Security, EDI and Privacy rules.

Which components of the HIPAA Security, EDI and Privacy rule impact email and other forms of e-communication.

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About Proofpoint's Healthcare Privacy Solutions

Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and HIPAA compliance are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.

The Internet is a ubiquitous, cost-effective communication channel that represents significant potential for lowering costs while improving service delivery. Proofpoint's messaging security platform helps leading healthcare organizations to safely take advantage of the Internet as a highly cost-effective way to link providers, members, payors, and claims processors in a streamlined value chain.

Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Proofpoint’s products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software.

The optional Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance module enables healthcare organizations to comply with HIPAA regulations by scanning outbound email messages for protected health information (PHI) such as patient data, drug names, and medical procedures.