Healthcare

The global healthcare market is being transformed due to the connecting of information, insights and technology between pharmaceutical and medical products, providers, payors and government health institutions. Healthcare organizations are under pressure to increase access to and share information across disparate sources, while still meeting strict security and data privacy standards. These standards set by the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) established the requirements for healthcare and related organizations concerning the electronic communication of patient information. For example, hospitals cannot send private patient data over open email channels. This information MUST be transmitted securely—typically using encryption.

Other sectors of the healthcare industry, such as pharmaceutical companies face a different set of challenges. These companies are in the intellectual capital business, meaning that what they produce in R&D and product development form the crux of the value of the company. It is the central asset for the enterprise. This ranges from drug formulation, areas of research and the associated data, clinical trial results, pricing information and product positioning.

Also, health insurance companies face increasingly stringent regulations regarding how they ensure privacy of personal health information. As patient information is passed between insurance companies, outside contractors, HMOs, hospitals, and individuals, personal health information must be protected and patient privacy ensured. There also needs to be the ability for all critical information flows to be tracked to verify that breaches of information security do not occur.

Using GigaTrust's Intelligent Rights Management products and services, personal health information, confidential records or any data related to patient information can be protected no matter where it travels—and our Enterprise and Enterprise Plus products allow you to establish rules that automatically apply policies that support the current HIPAA requirements.

You can use GigaTrust to:

• Protect proprietary and confidential data
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality
• Comply with government regulations and HIPAA privacy laws.

Representative clients we serve include:

• Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
• Vitamin Shoppe
• Veterans Administration