NAPLES,
FL – February 19, 2008 – HIPAAT Inc. (HIPAAT),
the leading provider of consent management solutions to
the healthcare industry, announced the release of its next
generation consent management software, Privacy eSuite
V2.0 and Privacy Manager V2.0, at the upcoming
HIMSS Annual Conference (booth 7942) in Orlando, Florida,
February 25 - 28, 2008. The software set enables patients
to control access to their electronic health information
and allows care providers to meet patient privacy requirements.
The enhanced version is based on service-oriented architecture
(SOA) to provide a flexible, pure Web services interface.
It currently supports DB2 and Oracle databases, with Microsoft
SQL Server on the product roadmap. The solution continues
to provide automated consent directive management at a granular
level and immediate security breach reporting to the privacy
officer via E-mail or pager.
"If you want a privacy or security rule or policy defined
and enforced accurately, consistently and reliably, it has
to be automated,” said Barry Runyon, research director,
Gartner Healthcare Providers, Gartner Inc. “Consent
management - patient directives that determine enterprise
access to personal health information - is one of those areas
best served through automation.”
Privacy eSuite allows patient consent directives – for
example, ‘I do not want my personal health information
shared outside Central Hospital unless the information is
required for my emergency care’ – to be created
and automated. Privacy Manager, in conjunction with Privacy
eSuite, enables healthcare organizations, personal health
record systems, electronic health record systems and health
information exchanges (HIEs) to implement and enforce those
consent directives.
“Healthcare IT vendors wanted increased flexibility
in applying our software to various environments – including
care delivery organizations, HIEs and the Nationwide Health
Information Network – while leveraging their existing
infrastructure,” said Terry Callahan, HIPAAT managing
director. “SOA was, without question, the next step
to take. We now offer a set of unbundled, patient-centric
consent management and auditing services that is more versatile
and accessible to all stakeholders.”
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