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Share clinical data while preserving privacy and confidentiality
Healthcare organizations face conflicting challenges: they need to provide the medical community with wider access to clinical data, but at the same time they must protect patient privacy. Roaming healthcare professionals, remote clinics, and multiple hospital locations compound the challenges, and adding medical images to the mix can increase bandwidth demands by an order of magnitude.
HIPAA regulations require that healthcare organizations safeguard patient privacy and keep sensitive medical information secure. Meanwhile, in response to federal guidelines, medical centers are moving to adopt electronic health record systems, often extending those systems to referring physicians as well. These systems can prevent drug interactions, speed decision-making, and improve overall patient care. An Application Delivery Network provides the framework for delivering those applications securely and reliably, encouraging quick acceptance by medical staff.
Why do I need F5 for healthcare?
Only F5 offers a total approach to delivering applications across networks using a unified architecture. With F5, you can extend secure remote access to physician offices, protect patient privacy, and reliably deliver clinical data anywhere it is needed. F5 helps you:
Benefits of using F5 for your healthcare solution include:
- Manage and control access to data by physicians, nurses, and administrative personnel both inside and outside the medical center
- Provide secure remote access from physicians' offices and homes
- Establish comprehensive safeguards against unauthorized access and malicious application attacks, including all common web attacks
- Balance loads and increase the performance of servers and applications by up to one-third, ensuring constant availability of clinical data
- Speed replication of databases across redundant data centers and provide automated failover capability
- Reduce the number of different solutions in the network, while improving network scalability and flexibility
Top Case Studies
- PacificSource Eliminates Data Migration Pain with F5 File Virtualization
- American Imaging Management Primes Its Web-based Services for Tremendous Growth with F5 Solutions
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield - High availability, best practices security and HIPAA compliance using F5's BIG-IP solutions
- IPC - Keeps doctors connected Using F5's FirePass remote access solution
- Lake Forest Hospital - Delivers life saving care with F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN
- Southern Illinois Healthcare - Relies on FirePass SSL VPN for easy-to-use remote access while meeting strict regulatory and security compliance
- Marquette General Health System - Relies on F5's FirePass Controller For secure, web-based remote access
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F5 solutions guide for the healthcare industry
How do I implement a solution for healthcare?
F5's comprehensive security and Application Delivery Networking solutions were designed to make implementation easy and manageable. F5 delivers specific, built-in Validated Application Policies as well as an automatic policy-building engine that can quickly adapt to application updates. For step-by-step configuration instructions, our deployment guides contain detailed procedures on configuring F5 devices with leading web applications.
