Data Security is the No. 1 Concern for Courion's Healthcare Customers; Provisioning and Password Management Software Cited as Most Critical Solutions in Protecting Data.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise provisioning solutions, today announced findings from a poll of its healthcare customers at CONVERGE '05, the company's annual enterprise provisioning customer conference recently held in Boston. Questioned about the key challenges facing healthcare organizations today, the majority of those polled pointed to data security as their number one concern. Patient privacy and user account access were also identified as issues warranting serious consideration. A quarter of healthcare IT and information security executives polled shared that their organizations have been the victims of a security breach, which threatened the safety of patient information. Asked what software solutions play an important role in ensuring security for their organizations in anticipation of such breaches, provisioning and password management systems led the responses overwhelmingly. Compliance remains top-priority for healthcare organizations according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. all respondents. Provisioning, password management, auditing and authentication solutions were highlighted as key components to helping organizations achieve compliance. Healthcare organizations are under intense pressure to provide patient confidentiality patient confidentiality Medical practice A Pt's right to privacy and freedom from public dissemination of information that the Pt regards as being of a personal nature. See HIPAA, Medical privacy. , protect data, and demonstrate only authorized people have access to specific information, all the while adhering to the strict codes outlined in HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, and other regulatory initiatives. The fluid nature of the industry makes access management an extreme challenge due to the frequency with which employees' roles change, the constant turnover of contractors, staff, doctors and interns and the necessity to often allow data access to satellite offices, vendors or out of network providers. Courion's leading provisioning solution, AccountCourier(R), enables healthcare organizations to manage appropriate access to users while achieving the necessary security and compliance mandates. Through Dynamic Community(TM)-based provisioning, a technique for managing the real-time assembly - at the point when a provisioning action is taken - of groups of people or resources organized by any set of common characteristics based on business, security and operational policies, AccountCourier greatly reduces the time, risk and cost of implementing provisioning solutions. By connecting to the underlying data defining work communities and policies where they exist, Dynamic Community-based provisioning provides agility to the provisioning infrastructure, reflecting the dynamic nature of how healthcare organizations quickly assemble, disassemble dis·as·sem·ble v. dis·as·sem·bled, dis·as·sem·bling, dis·as·sem·bles v.tr. To take apart: disassemble a toaster. v.intr. 1. , and re-assemble communities of staff, partners and contractors to drive business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets while ensuring data security and compliance. "Patient privacy should never be compromised at the cost of providing internal and external access to information," said Deb Pappas, vice president of marketing at Courion. "At Courion we focus on providing our healthcare customers with enterprise provisioning solutions that can keep pace with the ever-changing landscape inherent in the industry while ensuring the integrity and security of confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead ." Courion has over 255 enterprise customers worldwide including leading healthcare organizations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. Alabama, Capital District Physicians Health Plan, Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. , Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, located in Chicago's northern suburbs, is an academic health system affiliated with the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and all attending physicians are on faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine. , Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, HEALTHSOUTH, Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. (IU) Medical Group, Highmark, Inc., Sharp HealthCare Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups and a health plan. and VCU VCU Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Voiding Cystourethrogram VCU Video Control Unit VCU Vice City Unleashed (video game) VCU Value Compare Unit (Cisco) VCU Versatile Computer Unit Health Systems. About Courion Courion enables complex organizations to rapidly respond to constant change. Unlike traditional identity and access management technologies, Courion's Dynamic Community-based Provisioning empowers you to deliver transparent compliance, sustained efficiencies and improved business velocity, by effectively adapting to and leveraging your changing business operations, technology infrastructure and organization. Over 255 enterprise customers worldwide including 60 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning, password management, industry and regulatory compliance, profile management, and digital certificate management. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com. Courion and AccountCourier are registered trademarks. Dynamic Communities and Enterprise Provisioning Suite are trademarks of Courion Corporation. |
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