Zafesoft, a content security provider, announced today that a large academic healthcare institution in the San Francisco Bay Area is piloting the Zafesoft security solution for persistent, trackable and transparent security for secure healthcare collaboration between the medical center’s information security and privacy groups.
Content security providers manage access to a structured set of data, including mechanisms for figuring out and enforcing data security. Content providers “are the standard interface that connects data in one process with code running in another process,” according to developer.android.com.
“Doctors and other healthcare professionals share sensitive information when they collaborate to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare in the diagnosis and treatment of patients,” said Sandeep Tiwari, co-founder and CEO of Zafesoft. “That data needs to be secured and protected.”
Secure management of electronic medical information is so important because the theft or breach of it could have an impact on everything from the quality of patient care, patient rights and healthcare professionals, to physicians’ current work practices and legal responsibilities.
According to the source, Zafesoft protects original content at the character level. Once content is protected under the Zafesoft solution, or “Zafed,” it stays protected, even if altered or shared, wherever it travels – within or outside corporate firewalls.
Zafesoft’s solution addresses “the access control, audit controls, integrity controls and transmission technical safeguards” required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, for the protection of individual privacy and to safeguard electronic protected health information.
Medical data breaches have resulted in the unauthorized acquisition of millions of patient records, most recently in Utah, and cost the U.S., on average, $6 billion a year.
Edited by
Braden Becker
