Health & Life Sciences

These are challenging times for the Health & Life Sciences industry. Healthcare providers are rushing to improve security around patient data while their organization rushes to demonstrate meaningful use. Pharmaceutical giants have experienced significant setbacks in blockbuster drugs and need to not only comply with the FDA Compliance Program but also reduce the cost and complexity of their data protection and privacy programs. Health Information Exchanges & Regional Health Information Organizations work towards maintaining compliance with NIST, EHNAC, and HITECH while operating at low costs while demonstrating that their value proposition is strong. These are significant challenges.

The security of sensitive patient records, medical transactions, and intellectual property for pharmaceutical and medical patents, is among the highest of priorities. Healthcare organizations require security solutions that protect this information, and prevent fraud and network breaches, all while sustaining regulatory compliance and maintaining a clean bill of health for their networks.

Rook has developed a low impact methodology that identifies far more security holes than our competitors, is minimally invasive (quite like Intuitive Surgical’s DaVinci), and provides IT management, hospital executives, and technical teams the Risk Based Decision support needed to continually reduce healthcare IT risks.

Unique Industry Challenges:

• Healthcare firms demonstrating “meaningful use” without compromising privacy & security
• Securing clinical systems while providing availability and accessibility
• Reducing the invasiveness and disruptions associated with security assessments
• Securing clinical systems while balancing the criticality of IT requests, the security standards established by the organization, the needs of IT operations and hospital staff, all while maintaining FDA compliance
• Determining if and how to align with HITRUST
• Health Information Exchanges demonstrating value while maintaining compliance with NIST, HIPAA, HITECH and other standards