HIPAA- Maintain Accountability for Electronic Based Data with Abtech Systems DataTrust/CAS Solutions

DataTrust/CAS – Meet or exceed compliancy with Content Addressable Storage

Abtech Systems has a family of products that address HIPAA requirements to maintain accountability and security of patient data.  With the passage of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), the healthcare industry has predominately moved to electronic-based record keeping. This has caused a dramatic increase in the demand for secure and content addressable storage (CAS).
Abtech Systems offers its DataTrust/CAS family of solutions, which are ideally suited to the management and storage of fixed content information. DataTrust/CAS installations have been successfully installed in a number of businesses and healthcare organizations such as the National Institute of Health, MD Anderson, Cedars-Sinai,Kaiser Permanente, Abbott Labs and Mt. Sinai.

DataTrust/CAS is built around the Nexsan Assureon technology, which provides the most secure CAS solution in the industry.

DataTrust/CAS storage systems have been designed to meet and exceed the requirements of the medical and healthcare industries; in addition to providing a highly reliable and scalable storage platform, DataTrust/CAS solutions provide instant accessibility, are completely scalable, and include long term retention and lifecycle management of medical information. 
 
Some of the features available with DataTrust/CAS are:

Security

• File Fingerprinting
  Using advanced CAS (Content Addressable Storage) technology, Assureon protects the integrity of your data with innovative digital fingerprint technology. A unique digital fingerprint is generated for each file using concatenated SHA1 and MD5 cryptographic algorithms. This next-generation approach provides the benefits of integrity while eliminating file collisions that can result in data loss in competitive products. With DataTrust/CAS fingerprint feature you ensure the data  you put on storage is the data you get back regardless of time.

• Physical Separation of Data
  Individual applications, departments, organizations or businesses can share a single Assureon but have their own secure archive with dedicated storage to ensure physical data separation and privacy

• Self Auditing and Self Healing
  Assureon transparently checks the integrity of all stored files and automatically self-heals if any discrepancies are discovered

• File Audit Trail
  Assureon tracks all users and applications that access each file providing administrators with an unalterable audit trail of information access

• File Audit Trail
  Assureon tracks all users and applications that access each file providing administrators with an unalterable audit trail of information access

• WORM Storage
  WORM (write once read many) ensures retention periods are enforced and  provides file immutability. Once a file is archived, it cannot be changed and is protected against accidental or deliberate deletion, tampering, false file insertion and date or time altering

• Encryption
  Assureon protects information privacy and security with AES256 encryption - the encryption level authorized by the US Government for Top Secret Classified Information. Assureon encryption services ensures the highest levels of file privacy and security

• Secure File Deletion
  Use compliant-level file deletion with encrypted and non-encrypted files. Optional 7-pass DOD wipe can be enabled for DOD data deletion

• File Versioning
  File versioning can retain only the last few versions of a file and automatically disposes older versions. The number of versions to be retained is fully configurable from 1 to all versions

• Independent Date and Time Stamp
  As part of the encryption key service, independent time source prevents modifications to the system’s time clock ensuring the integrity of retention periods. With Assureon there is no tampering to the system clock or the date stamp on the file itself

• Redundant Architecture
  Assureon is designed as a fully redundant, high availability system providing no single point of failure. This fault tolerant architecture ensures the highest levels of business continuity and continuous data availability

• High Availability Storage
  Supporting the innovative Assureon appliance is highly reliable, green storage.Solutions provide redundant controllers, power supplies and fans along with  support for RAID 6 to overcome double drive failures

• High Density Storage
  Optimize data center space while reducing power and cooling costs with Assureon high density architecture.Assureon storage systems deliver 42TB of  capacity for every 4U of rack space providing users with one of the most space efficient solutions available

Manageability

• Use compliant-level retention periods to ensure data cannot be deleted
• Legal holds can be placed on files to protect against file deletion
• With CAS technology, store only a single instance of duplicate files maximizing storage efficiency
• Data replication to a whole new level with its digital fingerprint technology
• Configure host archive policies with Assureon FSW Client
• Extend Assureon archive service to include multiple remote offices
• Assureon Edge can provide a CIFS and NFS interface
• Assureon is an ideal platform for outsource management of archiving services