Christiana Care Health System and Zix Corporation -- Real World Solutions

By Stephanie Jordan
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Christiana Care Health System, a leading Delaware-based regional health system with two hospitals and numerous satellite facilities, has turned to ZixCorp Email Encryption Service to safeguard its confidential information and facilitate compliance with the updated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation.

Protecting sensitive email is vital to every email user. This need is intensified for healthcare organizations due to new HIPAA requirements that call for encryption of PHI while in transit. The new updates to HIPAA contained in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act introduce significant new consequences for security breaches. The healthcare industry is bracing for extensive enforcement and more punitive penalties. Healthcare companies and their business associates must address the new requirements in order to be compliant with the February 2010 deadline.

“ZixCorp’s Email Encryption Service provides value with an automated and easy-to-use means to assure all our email is secured thus protecting our patient and employee confidential information,” says Karen Gifford, director of information technology for Christiana Care. “The solution takes the manual intervention out by using Lexicons or rules that accurately capture and protect the information. This is critical especially as our government proposes new regulations and reimbursements in protecting protected health information.”

Published February 11, 2010