CiscoHealthcareSecurityPerspectivesProtectYourPatients.pdfVIP

Cisco Healthcare Security Perspectives: Protect Your Patients, Your Practice, Yourself Technical Implementation Guide Implementation Guide Cisco Healthcare Security Perspectives: Protect Your Patients, Your Practice, Yourself Contents Abstract Executive Summary The Need For Network Security In Healthcare Considerations For Implementation Designing The Network Architecture Deployment Blueprints For Providers Conclusion Implementation Guide Cisco Healthcare Security Perspectives: Protect Your Patients, Your Practice, Yourself Abstract As the healthcare industry adopts network applications and tools, patient data must remain secure and private. This technical implementation guide describes: • The security threats facing healthcare organizations • The steps that healthcare practitioners must take to protect the network • Deployment scenarios for small, midsize, and large-scale networks Note: This paper is focused on small, midsize, and large remote locations and does not cover the main provider location. To do so would require larger scale architecture than is discussed here. The same concepts will apply and can be applied to a main site location. A different product solution set that is better positioned to handle the increased traffic and service load would be applied. Executive Summary Network-based applications have transformed virtually every industry, and healthcare is no exception. Solutions that allow access to electronic medical records (EMRs), medical management systems, imaging, biomedical information, material management, patient accounting, admitting information, and online claims submissions are becoming commonplace in wireless, wired, and mobile scenarios. Today, healthcare systems can merge these tools into one infrastructure to more effectively communicate