Quick Overview
Regulations governing the privacy of health information have been with us for almost a decade. These rules have driven healthcare providers and payers to adopt information protection strategies however adoption of consumer facing electronic privacy has been a mixed bag. Secure email, secure health information portals, mobile healthcare applications and shared health data in the cloud are among the approaches for delivering healthcare information to patients in a secure manner.

Join us to discuss some of the key elements that makes a good security strategy for the dissemination of health information as well as exploring use cases which can save considerable time and expense.

By joining the seminar you will learn about:

		Key regulations and their impact of how to secure and disseminate data
		What is required to enable protection of sensitive health information including key patient requirements
		How to augment a low profile portal with pro-active communication with patients – and save considerable sums of money – e.g. electronic explanation of benefits

Background
The HITECH Act is a terrific step forward in enabling hospitals and physcians and the healthcare industry at large to implement electronic health records. Yet most approaches result in poor adoption because they fail to take into account the latest consumer trends in how patients wish to consume information – information which must be protected and only disseminated in a secure fashion. By drawing on examples from the financial services industry, where information for consumers has successfully transitioned from passive portals to secure messages and mobile applications, we will explore some examples such as electronic explanation of benefits (EoBs) where securely pushing information to patients can enable dramatic cost savings.

In this session, participants will uncover:

		Key consumer-patient trends as relates to consumption of information
		Common techniques for securing information that needs to be sent to patients
		How to augment the relative poor performance of passive portal based approaches to sharing information
		Leveraging the success of secure consumer communication from the financial services industry
		How to dramatically save costs associated with business processes such as Explanation of Benefits

Featured Speakers Wasim Ahmad - Voltage Security Vice President Marketing Wasim Ahmad brings to Voltage over 19 years of experience in enterprise software, application development and business intelligence, working with Global 2000 customers. Most recently, Wasim was Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at CA. Wasim was responsible at CA for defining and executing business strategy, focusing on portfolio strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as associated sales, marketing and branding strategies. Prior to CA, Wasim was with Sterling Software serving as a Business Unit Director, where he focused on applications development products for Distributed, Mainframe, Microsoft and J2EE platforms. Before Sterling, Wasim was with Synon, a start up in the applications development space, in various roles including product management and European marketing. Wasim holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Sussex, England. Tom Field - ISMG - HealthInfoSecurity Editorial Director Tom Field is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years experience in newspapers, magazines, books, events and electronic media. A veteran community journalist with extensive business/technology and international reporting experience, he has written news, sports, features, fiction and analysis for publications ranging from Editor & Publisher to Yankee Magazine, and he has held editorial management positions at weekly and daily newspapers, as well as a global business/technology magazine. An accomplished public speaker, Field has developed and moderated scores of podcasts, webcasts, roundtables and conferences, and he has appeared on C-SPAN, The History Channel and Travel Channel television programs.