Healthcare organizations find security, privacy cures

Healthcare organizations are energetically seeking cures for managing identity and security in fast-paced hospital environments to help physicians and nurses do their jobs more easily -- and to keep patient data safe. Sophisticated single sign-on systems are being deployed in hospitals to make it simpler for time-pressed physicians to find records, while encryption and data-loss prevention technologies are being introduced as barriers to any chance of exposing sensitive patient data . That's more urgent than ever since a new federal law that's gone into effect, called "Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act."

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