White Paper: Securing The Extended Healthcare Network

Healthcare organizations vary from hospitals, physicians, and ancillary clinics to pharmaceutical suppliers, retailers, and business managers. Yet they all share confidential, life-or-death information over Web-based and mobile networks. And with an aging population, changing economics, and new laws potentially affecting the industry, healthcare organizations are under more pressure to increase security and productivity while lowering technology costs.

Emerging concerns for the expanding healthcare network include:

• Mobility issues surrounding new handheld, wireless and 3G cellular devices, both inside and outside the local network environment
• Access to sensitive and life-saving information from more widely distributed locations by more users over more device types
• Protection of confidential patient information
• Ensuring that their organization is HIPAA compliant
• Disaster recovery and continuity of care in the face of relatively minor disruptions, such as blackouts or snowstorms, or major catastrophic events, such as earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes.

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