HIPAA prompts storage pairings

SAN DIEGO - A slew of storage vendors are announcing partnerships related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems show.

StorageTek announced two alliances. The first is with Stockwell, a healthcare consulting firm, to offer HIPAA Fast Path Gap Analysis, which lets organizations validate how they are meeting compliance for the April 14 privacy deadline. The second is with Rorke Data, a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, to support the dominant picture archival communications systems, hospital information systems and radiology information systems with its disk and tape systems.

EMC announced a partnership with Rogers Medical Intelligence Systems to support EMC Centera, the company's content-addressable system that stores data such as medical images that don't change over time. Rogers also will use EMC's Clariion midrange storage.

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SAN DIEGO - A slew of storage vendors are announcing partnerships related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems show.

StorageTek announced two alliances. The first is with Stockwell, a healthcare consulting firm, to offer HIPAA Fast Path Gap Analysis, which lets organizations validate how they are meeting compliance for the April 14 privacy deadline. The second is with Rorke Data, a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts, to support the dominant picture archival communications systems, hospital information systems and radiology information systems with its disk and tape systems.

EMC announced a partnership with Rogers Medical Intelligence Systems to support EMC Centera, the company's content-addressable system that stores data such as medical images that don't change over time. Rogers also will use EMC's Clariion midrange storage.

Dell and Securesoft Systems announced an alliance to embed Securesoft's Immunity Security Management Suite into Dell's HIPAA Compliant Desktop, which is used in doctors' offices and healthcare institutions for entering and updating patient records.

Securesoft also will unveil HIPAA Remediation Technology Roadmap, which will show off its asset management, biometric access controls, integrated vulnerability analysis, automated patch installation, public-key infrastructure messaging, nonrepudiation and integrated privacy/security technologies.

Enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996, HIPAA establishes national standards to ensure privacy in electronic healthcare transactions.

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