HIPAA - Manage Health Care Professionals Who Have Access To Sensitive Data

DataTrust/View

DataTrust/View Leverages Desktop Virtualization That Helps Healthcare Providers Improve Patient Care & Secure Health Data

DataTrust/View enables health care IT to administer to provide secure access to patient data and eliminates the ability to accidentally remove data via thumb drives, memory sticks or downloading directly to a laptop hard drive. VMware virtual desktop solutions can help Healthcare Providers relieve many of the burdens of desktop computing, including high management costs and low data security.

VMware View (formerly VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - VDI) can give care providers the mobility and reliability they need to access patient information at the point of care, while enabling data center staff to manage IT more efficiently with the strict security controls required by government regulations and patient privacy needs.

VMWare View offers an easy-to-manage desktop virtualization solution. With VMware virtual desktops, healthcare providers can host traditional desktops as virtual machines running on centralized servers in a datacenter, making management easier for IT staff and controls on sensitive data stronger.

VMWare View core benefits:

• Lower costs by centralizing management, administration and resources

• Increase security by moving data from desktop devices into the datacenter

• Improve business agility with faster provisioning and user flexibility with universal access

Caregivers can access their virtual desktops flexibly, inside and outside of the main care giving facility.  Doctors, nurses, administrators and even authorized 3^rd party partners can access intended applications via:

• Traditional PC's

• Laptops

• Thin Clients

Get greater flexibility, reliability, efficiency and security managing desktops and applications from the datacenter.

IT administrators can authorize access only to applications and data necessary for each user, and data never resides on the physical device, preventing loss or theft of data. This level of control is especially important in the healthcare industry where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates the security and privacy of health data.

VMware View improves HIPPA compliance for Healthcare Providers by ensuring:

• No data is stored on physical devices

• Staff has access only to specific applications authorized by CIO and data center staff

• Prevention of data loss or theft

Deploying hosted desktops on VMware, hospitals and medical centers are able to increase their desktop deployment agility, locking down sensitive patient data and reducing the cost and complexity of desktop management.

The VMware View portfolio of products lets IT run virtual desktops in the datacenter while giving end users a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location.

Description of a real client scenario:

A not-for-profit hospital in with more than 800 licensed beds, provided a challenge. As a quickly growing organization in a highly regulated industry, the hospital was looking for a way to enhance the manageability and compliance of its desktop computing infrastructure, while engaging more seamlessly with the community of referring doctors in the surrounding region.

The hospital needed to roll out a new, powerful medical information application throughout its network, while protecting HIPAA-related data.

A combination of thin clients and blade servers are used to access the centralized virtual desktops reduced power consumption across the hospital by 78%, improving longevity with lower hardware maintenance needs and making wireless thin clients on wheeled carts available to hospital staff for a full shift on a single charge. At the same time, the hospital is now able to provide doctors in the surrounding community the ability to remotely access centralized patient information via VMware virtual desktops through the Internet using a web browser, while maintaining the security of that data.