Internet Filtering at St. Jude Hospital to Meet HIPAA Compliance Challenges

Internet Filtering by 8e6 R3000 Internet Filter Meets St. Jude’s Hospital Needs - Summary

The 8e6 R3000 Internet Filter, an internet filtering, monitoring and reporting solution combined with 8e6 Enterprise Reporter was chosen to replace a prior internet filtering product in use at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, the world's largest childhood cancer research center and America's third largest healthcare charity. Doctors from all over the world refer their patients to St. Jude because of its reputation as a premier center for the treatment of catastrophic diseases in children, primarily pediatric cancer.

Manager of Information Security, Monroe Wesley, remembers the difficulties of their first internet filtering and monitoring product. “St. Jude had purchased Web monitoring software prior to my arrival to the organization. The product was difficult to administer and it was unsuccessful at detouring large amounts of inappropriate activities. We quickly began evaluating other Web monitoring solutions.” In their process of evaluating the market of internet filtering and monitoring products, St. Jude selected three that fit their requirements and ran equal bench-tests to determine which best met their needs. Their choice was 8e6 Technologies’ R3000 Internet Filter. "It was very clear 8e6 was the product St. Jude needed and wanted. The product was superior to the competition and we have been pleased with our decision to change," Wesley adds.

St. Jude’s challenges to comply with HIPAA’s patient information protection regulations are largely resolved with the feature rich 8e6 R3000 Internet Filter. One of the ways St. Jude uses the appliance to help protect the hospital is by evaluating Web site classification, monitoring for access attempts, and blocking known malicious code, spyware, and virus type sites.

Recent enhancements to the R3000 make it even better suited to health care organizations struggling with HIPAA compliance. It now features IM blocking, so that employees who should be working rather than chatting won't put an organization's information and infrastructure at risk. As with Internet filtering, this helps limit legal liability since employees can't IM, therefore they can't use it to transmit sensitive data. Secure Instant Messenger IM use also reduces the risk of virus infiltration. And in the 8e6 implementation, it serves as a baseline for P2P blocking-so that companies are protected against backdoor breaches from file-sharing sites.

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