HIPAA Email Security: Adventist Health Deploys Proofpoint to Keep PHI Safe, Employee Inboxes Clean

We're proud to welcome Adventist Health to the roster of leading healthcare organizations that use Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy to ensure the security, privacy and confidentiality of patient data while also protecting employees from spam, viruses and other malicious email.

Adventist Health is a leading West Coast healthcare provider with 17 hospitals and more than 130 clinics and outpatient facilities located across California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington—and about 18,000 email inboxes to protect.

When Adventist sought to replace its legacy email security solution with a more flexible, effective and easier-to-manage SaaS solution, they turned to Proofpoint, after consulting Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways.

Quoted in our full press release issued today, Adventist's information security officer, Alain Bouit, explained that improving the security of patient information and providing better service was a primary goal of the switch to Proofpoint.

“In any email security solution, a primary goal is to protect patient information. If a patient believes we are taking care of their personal information properly, it is one of the factors that helps ensure confidence to patients about our abilities as a provider,” says Bouit. “After examining many solutions, Proofpoint was the best fit because it had the flexibility to handle regulatory compliance, as well as protect patient personal health records.”

If you're tasked with protecting personal healthcare information for your organization, you can learn more about how Proofpoint provides superior defense against email-borne threats and comprehensive protection against exposures of HIPAA-regulated data by requesting a Proofpoint HIPAA Risk Assessment.

Visit: http://go.proofpoint.com/HIPAA-Risk-Assessment-Audit.html