Complying with Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) Requirements
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Thales e-Security’s Data Security Platforms can secure the data associated with EPCS applications and is available as a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 or Level 3 validated appliance.
"Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances" revises DEA's regulations to provide practitioners with the option of writing prescriptions for controlled substances electronically. The regulations will also permit pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive electronic prescriptions.
The DEA’s requirements for EPCS include:
In addition, in “§1311.205 Pharmacy application requirements” in the same DEA publication, the section states:
Make your data unreadable to others through strong, centrally managed, file, volume and application encryption combined with simple, centralized key management that is transparent to processes, applications and users.
Restrict access to encrypted data through access policies and user controls that permit data to be decrypted only for authorized users and applications, while allowing privileged users to perform IT operations without the ability to see protected information.
Logs that capture access attempts to protected data provide high value security intelligence information that can be used with a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution and for compliance reporting.
The Vormetric Data Security Platform makes it efficient to manage data-at-rest security across your entire organization. Built on an extensible infrastructure, Vormetric Data Security Platform products can be deployed individually, while sharing efficient, centralized key management...
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Since June 5, 2014 federal agencies have been required to meet FedRAMP standards, ensuring they meet internal data security standards and extended security controls for cloud-computing.
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These regulations cover healthcare information in the US, HIPAA relates to protection; encryption, key management. etc and HITECH relates to disclosure of data breaches.
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United States Federal Law setting standards for a range of US companies, SOX Act sections 302 and 404 relate directly to data protection.
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There is absolutely no noticeable impact on the performance or usability of applications. I am very excited at how easy the solution is to deploy and it has always performed flawlessly.Christian MuusDirector of Security for Teleperformance EMEA
Implementing Vormetric has given our own clients an added level of confidence in the relationship they have with us; they know we’re serious about taking care of their data.Audley Deansenior director of Information Security,
BMC Software
Vormetric’s approach of coupling access control with encryption is a very powerful combination. We use it to demonstrate to clients our commitment to preserving the security and integrity of their test cases, data and designs.David VargasInformation Security Architect
Cadence Design Systems
My concern with encryption was the overhead on user and application performance. With Thales e-Security, people have no idea it’s even running.Karl MudraCIO
Delta Dental of Missouri
The Vormetric solution not only solved all of our encryption needs but alleviated any fears of the complexity and overhead of managing the environment once it was in place.Joseph Johnson,chief information security officer CHS
As a global payment solutions and commerce enablement leader, Verifone’s strategy is to develop and deploy “best in class” payment solutions and services that meet or exceed global security standards and help our clients securely accept electronic payments across all channels of commerce. We… Joe Majka,Chief Security Officer
