Archer Technologies (Archer), a provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions, today announced the release of its Data Feed Manager, which provides a new way for companies to perform rapid integrations between industry-leading products and the Archer SmartSuite Framework. Designed for use by technical business analysts, the Data Feed Manager allows Archer clients and partners to use the Archer Framework as a point of consolidation, bringing together data from any source for correlation, analysis, process management and reporting. A vital component of any governance, risk and compliance program is the ability to form an aggregate view of risks, vulnerabilities, metrics and operational data within the enterprise, says Jon Darbyshire, president and CEO of Archer Technologies. With the Data Feed Manager, Archer is putting power in the hands of technical business users to rapidly integrate enterprise data systems with the Archer SmartSuite Framework. This is a new market

MAPEI Americas, a manufacturer of tile and stone installation systems, floor covering installation systems and concrete restoration products, has signed a multi-year agreement with 1Vault Networks (www.1vault.net), a South Florida provider for hosted IT services, colocation and disaster recovery services. MAPEI Americas, a part of MAPEI Group worldwide, operates 14 plants from Canada to Argentina and is headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Americas subsidiaries have chosen the 66,000-square-foot, Category 5 hurricane-rated 1Vault Networks location for disaster recovery, colocation backup and customized headquarters connectivity with ATT Metro E circuit and 100 MB wireless connections, internet access and five other cross connects.

Ounce Labs announced that the company's Advanced Research Team (ART) has documented two vulnerabilities that can affect Java web applications that utilize the Spring Framework. With more than five million downloads of Spring to date, the security vulnerabilities identified could affect countless enterprises that utilize this commonly used framework. The specific vulnerabilities are 'ModelView Injection' and 'Data Submission to Non-Editable Fields.' These vulnerabilities allow attackers to subvert the expected application logic and behavior, gaining control of the application itself, and access to any data, credentials or keys held in the application. Although the two vulnerabilities discovered and analyzed by Ounce are part of the Spring Framework, Ounce Labs ART experts believe that similar issues can be found in other popular Frameworks. The ART Team has worked closely with the security team from SpringSource, the company behind Spring, to confirm these security issues and develop re

St. Jude Medical announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Merlin@home transmitter, an RF wireless technology that remotely monitors patients implanted cardiac devices. The transmitter supports the St. Jude Medical Current RF and Promote RF family of devices and works in conjunction with the St. Jude Medical data management system, Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN), to provide complete remote care service for patients and their physicians. Until recently, patients with implanted cardiac devices were typically required to visit doctors offices several times per year to have their device performance checked. With the advent of transmitters capable of downloading and transmitting device data over telephone lines, patients are now able to initiate and perform many of these follow-ups in their own homes.

Clearswift has released a new version of its advanced content security tool, MIMEsweeper for SMTP, to strengthen organizations' Data Loss Prevention capabilities. MIMEsweeper for SMTP is a sophisticated e-mail security and management system designed to comprehensively address the complex security layers, policies, processes and procedures that larger distributed enterprises face. The solution provides the flexibility to tailor day-to-day management of e-mail infrastructures to specific organizational needs. It scans outbound e-mail messages to ensure that they match an organization's e-mail policy ensuring that any messages containing sensitive or inappropriate information blocked or routed according to the stated policy based upon enforcing multiple outcomes based upon sender, recipient or content. MIMEsweeper solutions have traditionally been used by companies wishing to control the content of outgoing e-mails. This new version sees the introduction of yet more features designed to h

Network Frontiers, the leader in IT regulatory compliance management, announced the availability of the Q3 2008 Unified Compliance Framework (UCF), the first independent database to simplify IT compliance. The latest version of UCF highlights the addition of numerous new regulations and standards, including Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and Fair Credit Reporting Act. UCF acts as the cornerstone of IT compliance, mapping hundreds of regulations, including PCI-DSS (Payment Card), Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, CobiT, and NIST, into a master hierarchal framework. We are engaged with an accounting firm that owns several entities requiring them to be compliant with HIPAA, FFIEC, SOX and GLBA, said Christopher Hannan, owner of Optimal Technologies, LLC. In order to for us to provide their compliance auditing and consulting, we needed a cost effective and easy way to organize their compliance obligations. After evaluating

Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security leader specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, announced a partnership with IdenTrust, who possesses the only global bank-centric identity network, to provide identity authentication solutions for secure online banking and financial transactions. Aladdin and IdenTrust are collaborating to offer certificate-based two-factor authentication for unmatched security, enabling financial organizations in the United States, Europe and Asia to implement next-generation technology to improve the security of e-commerce, fight identity theft, increase customer trust and drive revenue. Aladdin and IdenTrust will develop joint initiatives to drive future innovation and expand the options available for secure online banking and other industries requiring globally interoperable certificate-based transactions. A premier provider of authentication solutions to global financial institutions and the United States government, Iden

Compliance11, provider of regulatory compliance management solutions, announced that it has released Compliance11 Supervisory Suite 2.0. The second generation Software-as-a-Service application has an enhanced design including expanded functionality within each of the software's four modules -- personal trading, affirmations and disclosures, gifts and case management. Tad Mitchell, president and chief operating officer at Compliance11 said, As a SaaS provider we are able to constantly enhance the application with no impact or cost to our customer base. Our solutions are based on the feedback and direction of our clients resulting in a synergistic and effective compliance management product suite.

Identity Engines, provider of role-based access control solutions for heterogeneous networks, announced the Authenticated Network Architecture (ANA): the industry's first vendor-neutral best practices framework outlining how organizations can migrate from the static, IP-address based architectures of the past, to the newer identity-based controls enabled by recent standards including IEEE 802.1X. Regulatory compliance mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI, GLBA, NERC/FERC, FERPA, HSPD-12 across multiple industries have driven IT organizations to search for secure, efficient, cost-effective methods of controlling access to their network infrastructure. The ANA framework fulfills that need by leveraging latent enforcement capabilities present in most enterprise network equipment, enabling transparent role-based access across all existing infrastructure (wired, wireless, remote access).

Symark International, developer of the PowerSeries information security solutions for managing privileged access, announced PowerKeeper 3.0, the latest version of the industrys most advanced privileged account access management appliance for the secure creation, control, storage and retrieval of privileged administrative account passwords. PowerKeeper 3.0 includes support for application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-database (A2DB) connectivity, and bolsters security by replacing embedded credentials with one-time-use passwords. The new version also utilizes the HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server, which, when combined with PowerKeeper 3.0, significantly improves system availability and facilitates greater scalability to handle more users, managed systems and managed accounts per appliance.

Imperva has announced that it has extended its Imperva ADC Insights product line with PeopleSoft Insights, which monitors and protects PeopleSoft applications and data. Imperva ADC Insight Services enable organizations to streamline the compliance process and meet regulatory requirements on their application infrastructure without in-depth knowledge of the applications or mandates. Staffmark, one of the nation's leading staffing and workforce solutions providers, has developed self-service web applications based on the PeopleSoft platform. The company selected SecureSphere to safeguard these applications and the sensitive personal information they process including data submitted by job applicants.

McAfee announced enhancements to McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Endpoint, McAfees flagship endpoint security solution. This release provides new and updated compliance and security functions, including powerful policy auditing, flexible network access control, rogue system detection, enhanced Web security and improved anti-malware technology. The integration of management capabilities between endpoint security and compliance management enables customers to reduce costs, improve visibility and comply with industry & security policy across their entire infrastructure. According to Research VP Paul Proctor, Gartner, Inc. Companies today realize that they need more than just good security controls, and that they must also address compliance with internal security policies and industry regulations. A combination of good security functions and compliance management improves security operations efficiency and maturity.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals: A Complete Guide to Responsible Practice, with HIPAA Update, 2nd Edition report to their offering. Everything professionals need to know to protect their practice against ethical violations and complaints is covered in this second edition of The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals. Written by two attorneys specializing in legal and ethical issues in mental health, this indispensable guide arms clinicians with the expert knowledge needed to avoid an ethical violation, or to handle the situation if a complaint is filed. Organized alphabetically for easy reference.

INCA (Brazilian National Cancer Institute) creates Hospital Accreditation software based on Risk Management in order to authorize units to offer support within the international health standards.

Healthcare research in rarer diseases has taken a promising turn with a wider adoption of web-based technology products such as Research Smarts by Datazoom Solutions Inc. The challenge with rarer diseases is that it is difficult to draw any trends based on quality information, as the sample size at an individual location is not large enough. At the same time most of the research resources are focused on cancers, heart disease and HIV, which affect a significantly larger population. For pharmaceutical companies, who are profit-making entities, there is more data availability and bottomline profit in inventing drugs for the prominent diseases. Researchers specialized in diseases such as Lupus, Hepatitis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Scleroderma and other relatively obscure diseases have found it difficult to provide quality data to pharmaceutical companies for obtaining their assistance in coming out with drugs for these diseases.

Axway's Synchrony Healthcare Compliance Suite is now available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, giving companies the only industry all-in-one platform solution that can improve supply chain agility, efficiency and cost-effectiveness without making a significant investment in IT infrastructure. Axway's Synchrony Healthcare Compliance Suite On Demand fits Axway's start anywhere, use anything architecture, allowing companies to use one or more of the applications as needed to meet their business requirements. The Suite helps the pharmaceutical supply chain significantly increase the availability of information, ensure compliance, gain insight into the performances of the supply chain and reduce operations expenses. Companies using the Healthcare Compliance Suite are able to improve operational efficiency through supply chain visibility, enable product authentication and assure data integrity across all supply chain transactions.

Varolii Corporation announced general availability of Progressive Engagement, the healthcare industry's first complete automated communications suite. Progressive Engagement enables Managed Care Organizations (MCO), Payers, Disease Management, Wellness Companies, Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies to deliver automated communications to patients and members over the phone, through text messages, fax or email. It is a fully managed, on-demand outbound communications service that provides a cost-effective way to enroll more patients in disease management and wellness programs and promote member health. Early adopters of Progressive Engagement have already seen significant improvements over traditional mail-based and nurse telephone outreach. Disease management and wellness programs have the potential to improve overall patient health; decrease on-the-job absenteeism; reduce medical claims; and improve employee productivity. However, rising healthcare costs have led to in

SecureCare Technologies, a health care information technology company has announced that it has partnered with Thornberry Limited, developer of intelligent clinical management software for homecare, to provide Sfax, the first fully automated electronic fax record, to the home care industry. Sfax eliminates the entire manual physician order fax operation typically associated with home care providers and replaces it with an easy to use, automated fax system that is integrated within Thornberry's NDoc clinical management software. Users can expect to realize savings of up to 95 percent in administration time and up to 80 percent of the cost of manual faxing, said Dennis Nasto, CEO and Director of SecureCare Technologies.

Brabeion Software today announced that the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has selected Brabeion as its IT GRC tool to aid in the development and coordination of the Common Security Framework (CSF). The HITRUST CSF is a comprehensive set of tools to aid organizations that create, store, access or exchange electronic health, financial, and other sensitive information in protecting their information assets and managing related risks, costs and complexities.

Liquid Machines announced that Titus Labs, Inc.'s flagship Titus Labs Document Classification suite is fully integrated with the Liquid Machines Document Control solution. Liquid Machines will resell the Titus Labs Document Classification suite as part of their solution offering. Together, the joint solution helps large enterprise and public sector customers improve policy enforcement, meet compliance requirements and reduce the risk of data loss. As part of the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) alliance, the fully integrated solution offers government agencies comprehensive technology architecture to protect and share confidential information. Together with Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS), the Liquid Machines Document Control and Titus Labs Document Classification joint solution offers persistent data protection throughout the information lifecycle.

ForeScout Technologies, provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership. According to T. Kent Elliott, ForeScout CEO: ForeScout's success has kept our investor confidence high, believing in the proven potential of regulatory compliance and access control markets. While others have faltered, ForeScout has been able to consistently deliver industry leading technology to the most demanding enterprises and government organizations in the world. This combination of strong technology and focused go-to-market execution h

Aetna announced its support of a newly released Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information developed by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaboration operated by the Markle Foundation. The Connecting for Health Common Framework outlines how consumers online health information is kept private, including guidelines for developing clear privacy policies, allowing consumers to control copies of their health data and preventing third parties from obtaining information without a consumers authorization. The goal of the Common Framework is to increase consumers use of online tools such as Personal Health Records (PHR) by creating a common set of privacy principles that consumers can trust. As a health plan, we have an opportunity to effect change in the health care system by helping people access their health information and provide the support needed to make wise health care decisions said Meg McCabe, Aetnas vice president of medical and eHealth product. We see a

Quartesian, a multi-national Contract Research Organization specializing in data management, statistics, medical writing and eClinical technologies, announced it has selected OpenClinica as its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution for its clients' clinical trials. Quartesian represents one of a growing number of contract research organizations turning to OpenClinica to manage their studies. The richness and breadth of OpenClinica's global community drives the product's quality and evolution. We love the open source approach said Benjamin Jackson, Quartesian President & CEO. We have chosen OpenClinica as our EDC solution in part because it fits our current business need for low cost rapid implementation of EDC for Phase I trials. It also aligns with our strategy to bring our infrastructure and processes for data management in line with the current thinking of open source systems, data interoperability and the re-engineering of the clinical trial process.

Like many leading healthcare organizations, Springfield-based Memorial Health System is constantly in the process of acquiring and maintaining thousands of contracts, ranging from employment agreements with physicians and nurses to purchasing orders with major suppliers. 'At any time, we may be handling as many as 3,000 contracts,' said Cindy Oehmke, contract specialist for the health system. 'The whole system encompasses three hospitals, a home health services provider, a mental and behavioral health affiliate and network of primary care physician clinics and practices. We deal not only with contracts in different departments, but contracts originating from different locations. To think of that in terms of physical paperwork, it seems almost impossible to keep track of it all.'

For Sacred Heart Hospital, a regional medical facility in Eau Claire, Wis., archiving email is not only a good business practice, it is critical for meeting certain compliance standards outlined by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). In an effort to meet these standards, Sacred Heart deployed ArcMail Technology's Defender, an email archiving and management solution that runs seamlessly in the background of the hospital's network infrastructure. With email being Sacred Heart Hospital's primary medium for internal and external communications and document exchange for its 1,600 employees, the hospital needed a more secure and efficient solution for storing and recovering email. After evaluating several email archiving solutions, Sacred Heart selected ArcMail Defender for its ability to automatically index and store all incoming, outgoing and internal email messages.

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organisations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership. According to T. Kent Elliott, CEO of ForeScout, ForeScouts success has kept our investor confidence high, believing in the proven potential of regulatory compliance and access control markets. While others have faltered, ForeScout has been able to consistently deliver industry leading technology to the most demanding enterprises and government organisations in the world. This combination of strong technology and focused go-to

Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, announced that its Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is now a VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and available through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions, composed of one or more virtual machines, which are packaged, maintained, updated and deployed as a unit. Virtual appliances are fundamentally changing how software is developed, distributed, and managed, providing greater simplicity and accelerated time to value. Altor's VNSA offers real-time and historical visibility into virtual switch traffic and provides control over virtual machines deployed by enterprises, government agencies and organizations in regulated industries. Altor's VNSA enables network administrators and security professionals to apply security best practices for virtual networks and help companies comply with HIPAA, PCI and SOX requirements at a fraction of the cost of lega

Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it has released version 1.1 of its flagship log management product, Alert Logic Log Manager. The company also announced that Log Manager fully leverages the power of grid computing and virtualization technologies. Log Manager, the first log management solution in the industry to be delivered via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, gives organizations the ability to secure their networks and comply with regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). These mandates require that log data be collected, regularly reviewed, and securely archived.

Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer division, the leading developer of secure and managed file transfer solutions, has introduced version 5.5 of its MOVEit Central automated secure managed file transfer and MOVEit DMZ encrypted file transfer and storage server software products. With this release, MOVEit Central, an enterprise-level Windows-based automated managed file transfer program and MOVEit DMZ, an enterprise-level encrypted transfer and storage server, are redefining the way businesses are able to leverage corporate data internally and externally with partners and customers.

WiFiMed Holdings Company, provider of physician workflow solutions, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, EncounterPRO Healthcare Resources, Inc., has signed RBK Pediatrics as its newest clients. RBK Pediatrics is a mid-large sized practice based in New York, with locations in both Commack and Bayshore. RBK Pediatrics, which employs eight physicians and two nurse practitioners, stands to greatly benefit from the EncounterPRO EHR as it will enable the physicians and nurse practitioners to efficiently and accurately handle their patient encounters. By reducing the amount of time needed to fill out patient forms, RBK Pediatrics will, in turn, be able to dedicate more time and attention to their patients and the practice.

Secure Firewall enables compliance with PCI Data Security Standard while also providing industry-leading security and manageability

Bullzi Security, an information security provider, signs contracts with two electric utility providers for its WISE NERC CIP Training Course. Thomas Welch, co-founder and President of Bullzi Security, says, In order to meet the training requirements of North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Cyber Security Standard, two more electric utility providers have purchased the WISE NERC CIP Training Course. The revenue from these two contracts is just under $100,000 and adds 6,100 new users to Bullzi's growing user base. While the NERC regulation has been driving many of the recent deals, other regulatory programs, such as such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leech-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) have also had a positive impact on WISE sales. Bullzi has been signing contracts for its education software with some of the most prestigious domestic and international compani

LogLogic announced plans for its LogLogic 4 log management and intelligence platform to support Sun's identity management software portfolio, enabling advanced access compliance and user activity management. The resulting solution is designed to enable creation of efficient identity management processes that define users' application access privileges while identifying security issues and automating compliance-related tasks, such as monitoring for policy violations and access certifications. Identity auditing capabilities - as well as efficient log management and user activity monitoring - are specifically mandated by several regulators and industry standards, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Payment Card Industry (PCI)s Data Security Standard, and the IT Services Management framework (ITIL).

The TriZetto Group announced two new customers for the companys real-time patient liability and point-of-service claims adjudication software, Provider POS Direct. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) are the latest health plans embracing the value of real-time claims adjudication by selecting TriZettos Provider POS Direct application. BCBSKC has nearly 900,000 members and 4,000 network providers; BCBSRI has more than 680,000 members and nearly 3,900 network providers. Additionally, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee last year incorporated the software to serve 2.3 million members and the 75,000 providers in its network.The Provider POS Direct application will be hosted for BCBSRI in a TriZetto data center.

Integrity Interactive Corporation, a company that helps leading global corporations manage and reduce the risk of ethics and compliance failures, today announced its partnership with Vantage Partners, the leading management consulting firm specializing in achieving breakthrough business results by transforming the way companies manage their most important relationships. This partnership will provide clients of both Integrity Interactive and Vantage Partners additional expertise in specific areas of third party relationship management. Companies are looking closely at their supply chain to find ways to reduce risk, manage costs, and drive innovation. Vantage helps companies enhance internal and external collaboration to improve supply chain performance across these key dimensions, said Mark Gordon, Partner at Vantage Partners. Integrity helps its clients ensure that ethical standards are understood and followed by internal and external stakeholders and our partnership will leverage

Sun Microsystems announced the immediate availability of Sun Identity Manager 8.0, the latest version of Sun's flagship provisioning software. The enhancements in Sun's latest release of Identity Manager will help make our quarterly audits much easier. Now instead of trying to make sense of technical entitlement jargon, we can apply business terminology such as job titles and functions to grant and review user access privileges. With numerous product enhancements and new functionality, such as data export and attestation capabilities, Sun Identity Manager 8.0 is the first user provisioning software to truly provide role-based user provisioning, enabling customers to use business roles for both identity lifecycle management and identity auditing across enterprise and extranet environments. The solution has deep integration with Sun Role Manager to help enterprises with their attestation and identity audit needs. In addition, major updates in operational reporting allow customers to anal

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MedLink International announced that Piedmont Medical Laboratory will be offering in a cost sharing model the MedLink TotalOffice EHR as the Piedmont Lab sponsored EMR and EHR practice management system to select practices affiliated with Piedmont Labs. Piedmont will subsidize part of the cost of the system, enabling Piedmont to incorporate a powerful electronic ordering and results reporting tool into the care provider's workflow. The practices will receive a full practice management and electronic health record application in the MedLink TotalOffice EHR. Its features and functionality include: scheduling, e-labs, e-prescription, radiology reports and images, e-claims, reporting, complete medical billing, E&M calculator, document management, messaging, alerts and Notes.

Palisade Systems, provider of content monitoring and filtering and data leak prevention products, announced today that it has been awarded a 2008 IT Week Editor's Choice Award from IT Week magazine for its PacketSure product. PacketSure was selected for a 2008 IT Week Editor's Choice Award for security and performance based on its proven ability to block the leakage of sensitive data and help companies comply with GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, and SOX regulations. PacketSure has proven itself as a market leading DLP appliance by offering a variety of features and enhancements at a competitive price point, giving it a clear advantage over competitors, said Kurt Shedenhelm, President and CEO of Palisade Systems. This award from IT Week further validates Palisade's efforts to develop the best data loss prevention solution in the industry.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that the organizations Security Forum has initiated work on a risk management and analysis taxonomy standard. This is the first phase of a comprehensive initiative aimed at eliminating widespread industry confusion about risk management among risk managers, security and IT professionals as well as business managers. The Security Forums focus on a risk management and analysis taxonomy is in direct response to the idea that risk analysis has historically been more art than science. Prior risk taxonomies used terms which were ill-defined, resulting in many inconsistent definitions and taxonomies within the information security landscape. None of these provided a clear and logical representation of the fundamental problem that the risk management profession must control: the frequency and magnitude of loss.

Trend Micro announced its entry into the email encryption marketplace with the launch of Trend Micro Email Encryption Client 5.0 and email encryption for InterScan Messaging Hosted Security (IMHS). The solution enables small, medium and large businesses to encrypt email communication to any valid email address without recipient pre-registration or the need for certificate management, making it easy for the intended recipient to open the encrypted email. Email facilitates today's business, but email is inherently insecure. Email is typically transmitted as clear text along unencrypted communications pathways and unencrypted email risks being compromised as it travels from sender to recipient along the Internet. Businesses need email encryption to ensure the privacy of their internal and external communication, to help with compliance and regulations (such as HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, PCI or the UK Data Protection Act), and to protect their intellectual property.

2 acute care hospitals, 4 long term acute care hospitals, 36 freestanding and hospital-based long term care facilities, 12 assisted living facilities, 5 continuing care retirement communities, 8 behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities, 25 home health/hospice agencies, Numerous ambulatory and community-based health services The solution has driven a 75% increase in the work efficiency surrounding SLA reporting. Reports that used to take two weeks to compile are now done daily. In addition, performance response and resolution has greatly improved and is reaching levels that are above their targets. Donette Herring, CIO of Catholic Health East, said Health care providers are increasingly dependent on information systems to deliver safe and high quality care. This demand led Catholic Health East to establish performance metrics that reflects the needs of our IT customers to develop processes that ensure continual improvement on our journey to excellence. Oblicore Guarantee is the p

Netcordia, the company thats automating Network Change & Configuration Management (NCCM), today introduced a group of pre-packaged reports in a new compliance portfolio. NetMRI 2.4 tackles the biggest challenges of NCCM: How can network administrators reliably identify potential problems and incompatibilities on the network and correct them automatically in real-time? This newest version of Netcordias flagship offering gives administrators actionable insight into critical performance benchmarks detailing system changes, configuration flaws, and compliance mandates including PCI, SOX and HIPAA along with an overall health report card.

Tizor Systems, a leading provider of enterprise database monitoring and protection solutions, today announced Mantra 6 with updated features for data discovery, database security and ease of use. Mantra 6 features include automated discovery for finding databases and specific classes of sensitive data; session termination for blocking unauthorized or suspicious database activity; and drag and drop policy creation for the fastest and easiest implementation of data auditing for risk mitigation.

The secure management of personal digital information is becoming a key challenge for public and private sector organisations alike and, under the new Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, the UK's Information Commissioner is able to impose substantial fines on organisations that 'deliberately' or 'recklessly' commit serious breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA). To help organisations comply with the requirements of the Act, IT Governance has launched a 'DPA Compliance Toolkit' that provides all the essential templates and tools, greatly simplifying and speeding up the task.

eGistics, provider of hosted document management solutions, announced that it has won a contract with Revenue Management Solutions, LLC (RMS) to provide image and data archive and delivery services. eGistics will support RMS solutions for Explanation of Benefits (EOB) conversion, reconciliation, posting, and contract management. Together, the complementary eGistics and RMS technologies assure that healthcare providers are reimbursed to the fullest extent possible, as quickly as possible. Paper EOBs captured as images are converted into HIPAA-compliant data files. These files are combined with the RMS platforms ability to process electronic remittance advices (ERAs) received from multiple sources, reconcile differences between the ERAs, and provide a single data stream.

The privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is having a negative impact on the advance of biomedical research and the search for treatments that benefit society, says a newly-released report by the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC). HIPAA Creating Barriers to Research and Discovery describes the unintended disruptive consequences of the rule, including confusion for patients, misinterpretation by research participants, barriers to patient recruitment, and burdensome administrative procedures that increase research costs. It also offers specific recommendations to address these critical issues.

eGistics, provider of hosted document management solutions, announced that it has won a contract with Revenue Management Solutions, LLC (RMS) to provide image and data archive and delivery services. eGistics will support RMS solutions for Explanation of Benefits (EOB) conversion, reconciliation, posting, and contract management. Together, the complementary eGistics and RMS technologies assure that healthcare providers are reimbursed to the fullest extent possible, as quickly as possible. Paper EOBs captured as images are converted into HIPAA-compliant data files. These files are combined with the RMS platforms ability to process electronic remittance advices (ERAs) received from multiple sources, reconcile differences between the ERAs, and provide a single data stream.

Organizations of all sizes and from all industries face a myriad of corporate policies and evolving regulations governing the protection of personal and confidential data. However, the cost of proving compliance can be quite expensive if not automated to the highest extent. Lumension Security, a global leader in security management, announced the availability of a podcast titled, Cutting the Cost of Compliance with Proactive, Policy-based Solutions. In the podcast, Dee Liebenstein, senior director of product management at Lumension Security, provides insight on regulatory and corporate governance challenges and what methodologies organizations should adopt to simplify and minimize the cost of compliance. Outlining key steps for establishing security polices to address these challenges, Liebenstein also discusses how to map controls to regulatory and policy requirements, and what types of solutions companies should employ to reduce the cost of compliance and safeguard proprietary data.

eSoft, vendor of integrated Internet security and content management solutions, announced the release of its latest Email ThreatPak update, which includes a number of new features and enhancements. The newest release includes tools that ensure confidential data is protected against leakage and reduce the likelihood of non-spam messages being marked as spam, among others. This release also includes several performance enhancements including quicker deployment of new and updated firewall rules, faster anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning, and quicker booting.