At its core, HIPAA is about taking steps to protect the confidentiality of patient information. Achieving HIPAA compliance means implementing security policies for transmitting, accessing, and storing health information in electronic form. To comply, hospitals need to set policies and procedures to protect their IT systems and the information they contain.

Achieving HIPAA compliance means implementing security policies to govern how hospitals transmit, access, and store health information in electronic form. To comply, a hospital needs policies and procedures to protect its IT systems. AHA endorses two suites of security solutions from Computer Associates (CA):

eTrust™ - The hospital can proactively manage the entire security environment, thereby achieving business efficiencies, ensuring continuous operations, enforcing security policies, and complying with regulations. eTrust includes three solution areas:

1. Identity and Access Management - help your organization align its security management strategy with its business goals by: automatically managing who has access to which resources and services; logging and reporting what they have done; and enforcing business, privacy and security policies.
2. Security Information Management - help ensure that your organization is controlling its security infrastructure rather than being controlled by it. Centralized management of real-time events or post-event forensics analysis helps improve administrator efficiencies and reduce costs, while integration and automation enhance effectiveness and security.
3. Threat Management - prevent spyware, viruses, worms, spam and malicious content from infiltrating and infecting the network, email, and business applications.

These three solutions are integrated in CA's Security Command Center, which promises administrative efficiencies and reduced costs, enhanced effectiveness and security, continuous business operations and regulatory compliance.

BrightStor ® - A comprehensive set of integrated data and storage management capabilities that enables a hospital to manage and address storage issues at any level - from monitoring the network to administering SANs; from managing data to automating processes; from document management to enterprise management. BrightStor® includes three solution areas:

1. Enterprise Storage Automation - define and manage an optimal storage environment in which it's easy to adapt to changing business needs, automate processes to increase efficiency, and comply with both security policies and government regulations
2. Data Availability - protect the entire IT environment (including file systems, applications, databases and messaging systems, across all major distributed environments - Windows, NetWare, Linux, UNIX and mainframes) with comprehensive, cross-platform backup and recovery, data replication, and business-focused, policy-driven data management
3. Storage Resource Management - extend the IT strategy by combining "intelligent" storage and data management with other key management disciplines, such as security and asset management, to better support the need for improved operational efficiency

PARTNER CONTACT : Michael McDermand of Computer Associates is available by phone at (904) 371-6230. LEARN MORE :    http://ca.com

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