Healthcare Data Security

The challenge of ensuring healthcare data security.

Healthcare data security is a growing area of concern for hospitals and healthcare institutions nationwide. As incidents of hacking and data breaches continue to rise and as government oversight and auditing grows more complex, organizations are seeking health information technology that can help to simplify the job of protecting patient information and ensuring healthcare data security.

While the increased use of digital technologies to provide telehealth services is helping to improve patient care and reduce costs, it also makes healthcare data security more complex. Organizations require reliable connectivity and secure health information technology that can protect patient data and interaction when clinicians deliver health services via videoconferencing, voice services and Internet communication.

Healthcare data security starts with a reliable hospital network powered by fiber connections. For many healthcare organizations in the U.S., Spectrum Enterprise provides the fiber solutions that help to drive productivity, improve communication and ensure healthcare data security.

Healthcare data security and Spectrum Enterprise.

Spectrum Enterprise provides comprehensive solutions for fiber Internet, voice, video, cloud and managed network services. Many of America’s largest healthcare institutions rely on Spectrum Enterprise technology to help increase connectivity, reduce costs, improve care and enhance the experiences of patients and care teams.

Spectrum Enterprise helps to ensure healthcare data security by enabling institutions to count on secure and reliable connectivity solutions. These include:

• Dedicated Fiber Internet with gigabit speeds and dedicated, high-performance connections for data-intensive, cloud-based and mission-critical applications.
• Voice solutions with enterprise scale and reliability that provide next generation communications solutions and advanced collaboration features for connecting clinicians, patients and families more easily.
• Ethernet and cloud services that support storing and sharing large data sets and files, such as photos and videos from medical imaging.
• High-quality HDTV services for hospital room and waiting room TV viewing that help to improve patient satisfaction.
• Managed WiFi and managed router services that improve connectivity throughout a facility for clinicians, staff, patients and visitors.

Simplify HIPAA audits with Spectrum Enterprise healthcare data security solutions.

Managing network of a healthcare organization requires compliance with HIPAA/HITECH requirements for disaster recovery, redundancy and system availability. Spectrum Enterprise simplifies this task by providing EPL and EP-LAN services for communication between clinicians and offices that enable data to remain within the organization’s network at all times. These solutions also provide encryption through AES 256 VPN tunnels, in case systems have to failover to the public Internet.

Learn more about healthcare data security and Spectrum Enterprise, and get answers to questions like “Do hospitals have WiFi?”