Overview

Pharmaceutical companies are exchanging confidential information with physicians, researchers, laboratories and hospitals. Implementing an encryption solution also provides significant ROI for clinical trials.

Solution Scenarios

Allow researchers and doctors to encrypt their email when sending sensitive medical documents and research. Solution: Encrypted Mail

Allow patients to fill in dynamic HTML or PDF medical forms and send them securely when requesting special medical information, or participating in medical drug trials. Solution: Encrypted Document Presentment

Protect confidential patient, medical and research information that is stored on hard drives, laptops and portable devices. Solution: Encrypted Documents

Create a secure collaborative community for hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and physicians to share important medical information securely. Solution: Encrypted Message eXchange

Why Encrypt?

Pharmaceutical companies are leading the way with medical drug innovation and research, which means they are exchanging confidential information daily with different audiences that includes physicians, researchers, laboratories and hospitals.

Implementing an encryption solution provides pharmaceutical R&D departments with significant ROI. By implementing secure communications online, it allows the pharmaceutical clinical trials to go paperless.

Pharmaceutical companies are also dedicated to ensuring corporate responsibility which is why maintaining privacy of their digital communications has become a primary security requirement.

Privacy Legislation

The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by US Congress in August 1996. The act requires the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure standardization of electronic patient data and implement security standards to protect the confidentiality and integrity of individual’s health information.

Key Benefits

Encryption for pharmaceutical companies provides:

• The ability to meet compliance regulations and corporate privacy policies
• Enhanced patient relationships and speed- to- market when managing clinical trials, eliminating costly delays with streamlined drug trial submissions received electronically
• Rapid two way communication with laboratories that may be located around the world
• Proprietary medical research communications always remain protected
• Improved research response times for medical trials with automatic secure reply
• The ability to issue sensitive medical bulletins quickly and securely to hospitals, doctors and clinics
• Ubiquity for both pharmaceutical companies, patients, laboratories and the hospitals
• The ability to avoid negative impact on brand image by eliminating non-compliance
• Quick corporate wide deployment
• Cost effective per user pricing

Technology

The Echoworx Secure Services (ESS) platform is based on industry trusted standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, relying on standard X.509 certificates that are issued and managed for Echoworx’s data privacy applications, which include: Encrypted Mail, Encrypted Documents, Encrypted Document Presentment, and Encrypted Message eXchange.

The ESS platform is hosted in high-availability data centers operated by world class Application Service Providers. These data centers optimize data communications, message processing and storage of large volumes of data and offer fully redundant and uninterrupted service levels. The ESS platform provides a security framework that simplifies the end user experience of sending, receiving and storing encrypted documents by automating the management and use of digital credentials.

• Carrier Grade Architecture
  Unlimited scalability and high availability service.
• Standards Based Solution
  Industry-trusted PKI, X.509 certificates and cryptographic standards.
• Messages integrity
  Ensures message integrity through the application based digital signatures.
• Certification Authority Included
  No need to deploy and maintain expensive third party Certificate Authorities.
• Simple Deployment
  Fully hosted solution requires no end user administration.
• Simple Administration
  Intuitive and easy to use administration console for enrolling/disabling end users and resetting passwords.
• Industry Standard Encryption
  PKI, X.509, S/MIME, 3DES. AES, 128-bit SSL, 1024 bit RSA keys with MDS and SHA-1.