Today’s healthcare environment is a challenging one. Pressures exist to reduce paperwork burdens, eliminate errors and improve patient care. New regulatory requirements such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) demand higher levels of patient privacy and system security.

To overcome these challenges, many healthcare organizations are turning towards information technology (IT) investments. Technology is being used to eliminate redundancies in clinical and administrative operations. Patients are logging onto secured Web portals to access records and schedule enquiries. Doctors are leveraging remote access technologies to retrieve vital hospital records while working from home or local clinics.

As more medical information is converted into electronic format and Internet usage continues to grow, healthcare organizations are finding their networks increasingly vulnerable to attacks.

SonicWALL offers a broad range of simple, cost-effective security solutions designed to improve network efficiency while demonstrating commitment to HIPAA compliance.

Healthcare networks are vulnerable to many kinds of hacker attacks. SonicWALL’s firewall/VPN appliances provide secure, low-cost connectivity between remote clinics or physicians offices and the hospital or head office.

Wireless networks offer healthcare organizations unprecedented freedom and flexibility. Yet, wireless technology using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the standard encryption scheme, can easily be cracked. SonicWALL offers an enhanced wireless security solution leveraging VPN technology

Today’s destructive viruses can quickly damage an entire healthcare network and open up confidential network resources to hacker attacks. SonicWALL’s Complete Anti-Virus solution provides both client and server protection against harmful viruses and worms.

The HIPAA Security Rule requires healthcare organizations to adopt audit control mechanisms to help uncover suspect network activity. SonicWALL’s Global Management System (GMS) software simplifies the auditing process by turning log files about firewall attacks and user activity into meaningful reports. GMS also facilitates central management of all firewalls, value-added services and VPN gateways.