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Patient Data Security Solutions

Secure solutions that deliver access to the right applications and data at the right time

Healthcare providers and patients require easy—but secure—online access to medical applications and data. Physicians, nurses, and clinical staff need access to critical systems, while patients want to manage appointments and prescriptions electronically. Stringent regulatory standards for data protection mean that healthcare organizations must tightly govern who can access information. F5 solutions help healthcare organizations manage this delicate balancing act—maintaining a focus on patient data and application security, while enabling healthcare providers to exchange data by accelerating Health Level 7 and other common XML interfaces. As a result, patients and their data move seamlessly and securely through the network, from appointments to prescriptions and follow-up care.

Why do I need F5 patient data security solutions?

F5 patient data security solutions provide healthcare organizations the opportunity to tightly control patient data for the utmost in security and compliance, while still giving providers unified access to comprehensive data when they need it.

Benefits of using F5 for your healthcare solution include:

  • Top-down control of patient data helps reduce regulatory audits and associated costs
  • Quick and secure data access to the right people at the right time improves quality of care
  • Centralized control of patient information helps increase collaboration among—and across— teams for unified care
  • Multilevel access with single sign-on ensures that patients and providers can view records based on account privileges

Top Case Studies

West Virginia University Hospitals | Overview

West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to increase the availability of its Epic clinical applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes, while easing the user authentication process. With F5 solutions, the organization can provide higher uptime for its Epic and Exchange environments, and can give doctors and nurses more reliable access to these critical applications.

Healthcare: ADC Solution | Overview

A healthcare organization's small application management staff must ensure high availability and fast delivery of thousands of critical administrative and clinical applications. To meet those goals, the organization uses an integrated solution that includes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Policy Manager (APM), managed by F5 Enterprise Manager.

Sysmex America | Overview

To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. The company employed the Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from F5 Networks and as a result, has surpassed 99.999 percent email uptime.

Medavie Blue Cross | Overview

Medavie Blue Cross provides health, travel, life, and disability income coverage to groups and individuals throughout Canada. It has 30.5 million customer contacts annually, with $3 billion in revenue and claims under administration. Medavie Blue Cross needed to improve the flexibility and scalability of its web application infrastructure. Using F5 solutions, the company optimized application performance and realized substantial ROI across a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.

RelayHealth | Overview

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.


Top White Papers

F5 BIG-IP Platform Security | Overview

F5 BIG-IP system hardware and software, which use the F5 TMOS operating system, are designed from the ground up to work together to provide total application security.

Secure, Optimized Global Access to Corporate Resources | Overview

Global access to corporate applications is critical to an organization. The range of users, devices, and their locations requires stringent application access control to securely connect any user on any device from any location to wherever the application lives.,x-default

HIPAA Security Compliance and F5 Solutions | Overview

HIPAA, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, requires healthcare organizations to take added precautions to ensure the security of their networks and the privacy of patient data. This White Paper provides an overview of HIPAA security compliance, explores how companies can mitigate their security risks and adapt a strong HIPAA compliant posture using F5 products, illustrates how F5 products map to specific HIPAA security rules, and explores some of the key reasons F5 products are unique in their ability to provide companies with a simple means to allow compliance with HIPAA.


How do I implement a patient data security solution for healthcare?

F5’s comprehensive patient data security solutions are designed to make implementation easy and manageable. For step-by-step configuration instructions, our deployment guides contain detailed procedures for configuring F5 devices to meet your mobility needs.

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 DevCentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for a patient data security solution?

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a flexible, high-performance access and security solution that provides unified global access to your most important healthcare applications and network, helping you to free up valuable IT resources and scale cost-effectively.
  • BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) is a web application firewall that secures web applications in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments, providing unmatched application and website protection and compliance for key regulatory mandates.
  • BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a full proxy between users and application servers, creating a layer of abstraction to secure, optimize, and load balance application traffic, giving you the control to add applications and servers easily, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security requirements.

Resources

F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

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