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Data protection is an important issue these days as the threat of personal information being compromised and used unjustly has increased.

 

In the healthcare field, the need to protect electronic health records and data containing sensitive patient information is even more important as medical identity theft is on the rise.

 

More and more industries have turned to the Web and electronic storage of information for its efficiency and convenience. Personal medical information can be mistakenly sent via email or intentionally extracted from a USB flash drive – so protection is a must.

 

To meet this need, Code Green Networks, a provider of data loss prevention solutions has announced a new TrueDLP security system that help\s healthcare organization protect sensitive data from the loss or theft over all of their outbound network communications.

 

"Today's Web is a bi-directional communications channel, and many doctors and other practitioners like the convenience of Web-based e-mail and other Web forums for sharing information for diagnostic reasons," said Rod Murchison, vice president of marketing and strategic alliances at Code Green.

 

With Code Green’s solutions, organizations can manage content and inspect for threats or potential data leaks – helping to keep them from any damage to their corporation, brand or customer loyalty and keeping them from losing revenue or receiving financial penalties.

 

"With our TrueDLP for Healthcare solution, healthcare organizations can immediately see where they are vulnerable and then take appropriate measures to eliminate these vulnerabilities. We think this will be a must-have solution in the age of electronic health records."

 

The solution not only helps healthcare organizations to protect data on their networks, but it also offers a patent pending detection solution that protects against the loss of HIPPA code set information and unauthorized Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transmissions.

 

"Given the nationwide push to digitize healthcare records, healthcare IT professionals should adopt appropriate tools to identify and secure sensitive data moving over their networks, especially via non-secure channels such as Web mail and public health networks," said Eric Ogren, principal analyst at the Ogren Group.

 

"Content inspection solutions like Code Green's are an essential tool for identifying and securing data vulnerabilities."

 

Available today, and starting at $10,000, the TrueDLP for Healthcare solution comes with Code Green Content Inspection appliances preloaded with a wide range of HIPAA code set and healthcare EDI protocol identifiers including: ICD-9, LOINC, NDC, SNOMED CT, HCPCS, HL7 and X12.