Healthcare Providers, Insurers and Medical Device Manufacturers Secure Highly Sensitive and Regulated Data in the Cloud with Perspecsys AppProtex

Perspecsys, the leader in enterprise cloud data protection solutions, today announced the company is seeing a surge in worldwide demand for its AppProtex Cloud Protection Platform across all sectors of the healthcare industry. Against a backdrop of increasingly stringent sector-based compliance and privacy regulations meant to address increasing cyber threats to healthcare data that is finding its way into a variety of dispersed systems like public clouds, healthcare organizations have embraced AppProtex to harness the power of the cloud, while ensuring the highest possible security and control of sensitive and regulated data.

With AppProtex, sensitive protected health information (PHI) data is replaced with a token or an encrypted value while still inside the healthcare organization’s firewall, prior to going to a cloud environment for processing and storage. Because the clear-text data never leaves the organization, and is protected in-transit, at-rest and in-use within the cloud, issues associated with healthcare data privacy, security and compliance are completely addressed. In addition to securing the data, the AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Platform ensures that the users of healthcare cloud applications can still use the application’s features – like searching, sorting and reporting – even on data that has been strongly encrypted or tokenized.

As digital healthcare information dramatically grows, cyber criminals certainly have their eyes on this treasure trove of personally identifiable information (PII). Knowing they must control their data flow in outsourced environments like SaaS cloud applications, CIOs in healthcare organizations have turned to Perspecsys’ platform to protect their data as they have looked to embrace cloud platforms for operational efficiency, for example:

  • For a service provider to many of the top Fortune 100 healthcare medical product and pharmaceutical companies, securing patient data to their cloud systems with Perspecsys is a key component of protecting PHI. Patient data stays within their secure and compliant datacenter while only replacement tokens are processed and stored in their SaaS clouds. This way, clinical staff and patients throughout Europe and North America have full access to required information to perform their jobs and, in every step of the way, the organization has full control over their customer’s patient healthcare data.
  • Perspecsys provides critical data protection to secure healthcare insurance claims in the cloud. Through the use of encryption and tokenization technologies, Perspecsys AppProtex enables the use of a cloud system that provides fast, anywhere access to claims that are being processed by this healthcare insurer. Perspecsys ensures that all sensitive claims data is protected throughout its lifecycle phases of use in the cloud system (in-transit, at-rest and in-use). Perspecsys enables the adoption of this cloud system, which has streamlined the entire claims process for insurers, employers and third-party administrators.
  • A leading provider of medical devices has launched a system to report a patient’s blood sugar levels by scanning and storing patient information and blood data in a cloud system that is accessible via web-based portals. Perspecsys supports secure and effective data monitoring and collaboration between patients and doctors by controlling where patient data physically resides and who has the ability to access it in the clear.

In a report exploring why healthcare organizations will need stronger security to participate in digital business, Gartner noted, “as providers, payers, employees, patients and partners become increasingly intertwined through shared data, greater transparency and greater use of analytics, the opportunities for loss, error and theft grow exponentially.” Gartner recommendations include the advice to “review existing health information security policies to identify all the risks to electronic health information that the organization faces.”(1)

“Healthcare organizations have seen a massive jump in cyber attacks over the past year and we’ll continue to see more cases like Anthem unless the industry takes fundamental steps to raise the bar for cybersecurity – especially given the heavy push towards cloud-based systems to manage healthcare applications,” said David Canellos, President and CEO, Perspecsys. “When it comes to safeguarding mission-critical electronic health information in cloud applications, healthcare organizations need the highest levels of protection through all phases of their data’s lifecycle. Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in demand from healthcare organizations who are choosing the AppProtex Platform to satisfy security and regulatory needs while allowing them to fully leverage the power and flexibility of the cloud.”

(1) Gartner: Healthcare Delivery Organizations Will Need Stronger Security to Participate in Digital Business 02 April 2015 G00274965 Analyst(s): Zafar Chaudry, M.D. | Barry Runyon

About Cloud Data Protection Provider, PerspecsysPerspecsys’ Cloud Data Protection platform solves key data compliance, privacy and security concerns for enterprises adopting cloud-based applications. The solution puts enterprises in complete control of their cloud data at all times, allowing them to simply address the leading data compliance and security challenges impacting enterprise cloud adoption. By removing the security issues and operational risks associated with placing sensitive data in the cloud, Perspecsys makes the public cloud private. Perspecsys Inc. is a privately held company backed by investors, including Intel Capital, Paladin Capital and Ascent Venture Partners. For more information please visit www.Perspecsys.com and follow us on Twitter @Perspecsys.

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