Healthcare Sector

In recent years, the healthcare sector has had many challenging demands imposed upon it. For starters, in the United States there is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), demanding that strict procedures are followed to protect patient privacy. Secondly, worldwide we have an ever increasing mobile workforce, enabled by new internet technologies. Lastly, we have the security challenges imposed by providing access to confidential data across an increasingly diverse range of access channels.

With remote access comes a strong desire to protect information and strongly control access to clinical records. Clinics need to provide secure remote access to patient records from a variety of locations, often on an extremely tight budget.

Thankfully, SSL-Explorer is well placed to address these concerns:

Audit Log and Management Reporting
In compliance with HIPAA, all access to the system can be logged in detail and SSL-Explorer can even generate alerts when certain criteria are met, for example three failed logon attempts. Alerts may be sent by a number of methods, such as email or SMS text message for immediate action.

Client Health Check
Clients connecting to the SSL VPN server may be scanned for several criteria that helps to reduce the risk of connecting to a secure facilty via a vulnerable PC. The remote users system can be checked for many criteria, including virus checking software, operating system type and service pack level.

Hardware Token Support
Doctors and clinicians may be authenticated by a USB cryptographic device such as the Rainbow iKey. This authentication token can be used to restrict access to only those with the required clearance level. It can also be combined with any other identification method supported by SSL-Explorer for even tighter security.

Legacy Application Compatibility
Access to hospital information systems is virtually transparent to users with the nEXT feature of SSL-Explorer. Any form of application is now accessible remotely, from cardiology diagnostic software to patient booking systems running on Citrix MetaFrame servers.