Recent security mandates of the Federal economic stimulus package, the HITECH Act, HIPAA, and state data breach and encryption laws, as well as e-prescribing and medical identity theft are compelling organizations to rethink quality of care, patient safety, and compliance priorities.

Common among all of these changes is the need for enhanced and secure connectivity across a national network of healthcare delivery. The foundation of this enhanced access to critical data must be a health information technology infrastructure that allows for the secure exchange and use of information. This connectivity must support secure access to information and collaboration among mobile personnel as they perform duties throughout the expanded healthcare enterprise. It must protect the data in order to meet stringent federal and state security compliance requirements with real-time network monitoring, tracking, reporting, and continuous audit, forensics, and enforcement capabilities.

This knowledge sharing event will discuss new mandates for the secure collection and exchange of electronic patient health information, today's priority on healthcare information technology, the application of database security and log management technology within healthcare.

You will gain timely insights into the new stimulus package and state and federal data breach notification and encryption laws. We will explore:

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) IT & security spending priorities for healthcare.
• HITECH Act health information technology, data breach notification mandates, and updates to HIPAA coverage and enforcement under ARRA.
• Successful application of database security and log management technology within healthcare.