Healthcare

HIPAA compliance is a must for healthcare messaging services
Hospitals and healthcare organizations face a new set of requirements to assure patient privacy. The 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) has had a wide ranging impact on the way hospitals handle information, particularly electronic medical records (EMR). These requirements, which must be met by 2006, affect how hospitals secure their network and all of the services offered on the network; in particular, communication using email must be secure. The liabilities and penalties for failing to meet HIPAA requirements are frightening, up to $250,000 in fines and imprisonment of up to 10 years. Given this reality, hospitals need messaging solutions that assure patient privacy and thwart all virus and spam attacks as well.

Mirapoint’s Secure Messaging Infrastructure™ solutions can help
Mirapoint, the leading secure messaging provider, offers messaging solutions that enable healthcare organizations to deliver a secure, scalable messaging infrastructure that meets the challenges of regulatory compliance. With Mirapoint, healthcare organizations can deploy a messaging infrastructure that includes email filtering and scanning of messages to detect content requiring special treatment. Such content would include all patient health information (PHI), including electronic medical records EMR) appointment information, prescriptions, invoices and bills, American Medical Association AMA) treatment codes, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disease codes.

Mirapoint messaging appliances are the building blocks of an “always on” messaging infrastructure that addresses security throughout the fabric of the network, not just at the network edge. A Mirapoint appliance-based infrastructure can easily scale to meet the growing needs of even the largest healthcare organizations while maintaining the lowest TCO in the messaging industry and providing a platform for the provisioning of new services.

Mirapoint solutions are designed to meet the demands of the healthcare industry by providing:

• Proven five-nines reliability (less than 6 minutes of downtime per year)
• SMTP-layer edge blocking reducing unwanted message traffic by 60-80%
• 98% spam catch-rates with virtually zero false positives
• Integrated day zero virus scanning technology
• Outbound content filtering for global policy enforcement and regulatory compliance
• Encrypted transmission of messages from client to the mail server
• Secure, hardened operating system with no known exploits for extra protection against hackers
• Sender authentication to assure messages from unauthorized sources never enter the network
• Standards-based architecture works with major email clients (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc.), legacy email applications, directory servers and storage options
• Collaborative services including calendaring, group scheduling, address book and to-do-lists
• Microsoft Outlook synchronization for a seamless end-user transition

To learn more or to request a free evaluation, call us at (800)937-8118 or email info@mirapoint.com.