Due to more stringent HIPAA privacy and security enforcement, safeguarding electronic information has become a "must" for healthcare organizations. More than ever, today's healthcare providers must take the necessary steps to secure the access, storage and the exchange of personal health information. However, shrinking budgets make it a challenge to implement secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to help properly secure the explosive data growth.

Centralizing information and document storage has lulled healthcare organizations into a false sense of security - thinking their own staff could not be a potential cause of a security incident involving data loss. When in reality, well-meaning staff members download sensitive patient privacy information onto their laptops and external storage drives everyday in the normal course of business. Often, these devices are stolen while staff members are in transit.

Additionally, transmitting patient documents to third-party healthcare organizations is commonplace, but many of these institutions have insufficient controls to comply with the sender's privacy policies. The HITRUST Common Security Framework Program will soon help define a set of standards for security governance but - not in time for healthcare organizations to adopt and implement before significant data loss occurs.

InDorse technologies understands the unique challenges facing healthcare organizations. The InDorse solution prevents data leakage/data loss by tagging or embedding sensitive documents with a barcode and electronic inventory and security tag, carrying all required document security policies for downloading, printing and viewing, as well as official chain-of-custody details.

InDorse helps healthcare organizations to:

• Ensure HIPAA compliance by tagging sensitive documents with pre-defined rules to automatically enforce institutional policies.
• Protect all sensitive documents once they leave the server - implementing security policies no matter where the documents travel - databases, laptops, PDAs, etc.
• Reduce staff burden by allowing them to conduct "business as usual," without learning new applications or procedures - InDorse policies follow all documents.
• Cluster Group all documents in a network into specific categories for access, views and other privileges.
• Provide intelligence on who is accessing which sensitive files - inside and outside healthcare organizations.