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Sigaba Selected by A.O. Fox Memorial for Secure Messaging
Secure Data in Motion, dba Sigaba®, provider of secure message management solutions, announced that A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital has selected Sigaba Secure E-mail to meet security and privacy requirements and compliance laws set forth by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Since the passage of HIPAA, A.O. Fox Memorial has proactively engaged in implementing standards, policies and procedures to ensure compliance by the deadlines required. Sigaba provides organizations with strong, fast, easy and affordable security solutions for e-mail, instant messaging and document delivery. These messaging services apply an innovative approach to security that ensures the most effective exchange of confidential information over wired and wireless networks, organization-to-organization and desktop-to-desktop.
"Protecting our patients' protected health information (PHI) by maintaining secure communications within the organization and with external providers is of utmost importance to us," said Joe Phillips, director of Hospital Information Systems, A.O. Fox Memorial. "While meeting requirements for security was imperative, we also wanted to ensure that communications would remain unconstrained. To do so required complete ease and transparency of the encryption process to users. The Sigaba secure messaging solution is the most easily adoptable, scalable and manageable solution available, and it enabled instant HIPAA compliance. It will help keep us nimble, more accurate and competitive in the future."
"A.O. Fox Memorial has taken a strong step in securing patient PHI," said Tanya Candia, senior vice president of marketing and chief strategist, Sigaba. "Executives and the board can rest at ease knowing that privacy of electronic communications will be protected."
Ease of use is the hallmark of the Sigaba platform. Although the platform is extremely robust, it embodies ease and simplicity in many ways; it is simple and transparent to end-users, it is easy and fast to deploy and integrate into the existing IT security environment, and it is easy to administer and manage as it scales. Sigaba is the easiest way to extend security to anybody or any organization and is interoperable with third party systems. With the widest range of e-communications capabilities and features, Sigaba provides customers with the most complete enterprise-class solution on the market.
The Sigaba secure messaging platform is based on open and next-generation industry standards, such as federated identity management, assuring investment protection in addition to a rapid ROI. 02.06.2004, Sigaba
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