[July 13, 2004] Vericept Corporation Adds DeKalb Medical Center to a Growing List of Healthcare Customers Concerned with HIPAA Compliance DENVER --(Business Wire)-- July 13, 2004 -- Vericept Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions, today announced the addition of yet another prestigious healthcare organization, DeKalb Medical Center, a leader in progressive medicine and patient care in Atlanta, GA. DeKalb joins a growing number of Vericept healthcare customers that are integrating Vericept Solutions as part of their overall healthcare compliance and policy management strategy. Almost 100 other healthcare organizations rely on Vericept for compliance solutions including: Piedmont Hospital-Atlanta, GA, Vancouver Island Health Authority-Victoria, British Columbia, Community Hospitals of Indiana-Indianapolis, IN and Naval Hospital-Camp Pendleton, CA. "We initially integrated the Vericept Privacy and Compliance Manager to monitor outbound email against our internal email policies," said Sharon Finney, information security administrator for DeKalb Medical Center. "This solution not only met our needs for monitoring for HIPAA violations, but also helped to uncover an enormous source of Internet pop-ups that were generating excessive Internet traffic on a daily basis. Once installed, we were able to isolate the pop-ups and determine it was not user abuse." Vericept's Privacy and Compliance Manager enables healthcare information security professionals to comply with HIPAA by managing information risks. These include the leakage of protected health information, hospital information and other sensitive patient and proprietary information. Additional Vericept solutions are used by healthcare providers and other customers to manage different forms of risk, such as acceptable use management, information privacy and corporate governance. These solutions enable compliance with: Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach Bliley and other federal regulations. "We are very pleased with the positive response from our healthcare customers, "says Tery Larrew, president and CEO of Vericept. "It is paramount for healthcare institutions to be the guardians of private patient information, and we are encouraged by the proactive steps they have taken to protect private patient information by using our solutions." Alternative Technology, a Vericept distributor, is also leveraging the Vericept Privacy and Compliance Manager as part of their overall Healthcare Security Reseller Program. "The integration of Vericept enhances the vulnerability assessments that we provide as part of our healthcare security program, as well as a stand-alone solution that can be offered to risk management and compliance teams at healthcare organizations," says John Stubbs, vice president of business development strategies at Alternative Technology in Denver, Colorado. A white paper from Vericept on healthcare compliance is now available from the company web site at: www.vericept.com along with additional information on Vericept's Privacy and Compliance Manager. About Vericept Corporation Vericept Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions. Designed for any-sized organization to manage the business risk inherent in Internet and electronic communications that can lead to business disruption, Vericept's intelligent content monitoring platform enables an organization to prevent losses to valuable information assets and protect its brand and reputation. Vericept's unique contextual linguistics engine provides never before seen visibility to multiple forms of business risk including regulation compliance violations, corporate governance concerns, internal policy infractions, information leaks, and unacceptable Internet use across all forms of Internet traffic, including Web, email, chat, IM, P2P, FTP, bulletin board postings and telnet in real-time without requiring an increase in resources. As the leader in information privacy and compliance management, Vericept monitors more than 1.2 million workstations across almost 600 customers worldwide. Vericept is a privately held company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For additional information, please visit the Company's Web site at www.vericept.com or call 800.262.0274. About DeKalb Medical Center DeKalb Medical Center is a not-for-profit community hospital system including the 525-bed DeKalb Medical Center, the 102-bed DeKalb Medical Center at Decatur and the new 100-bed DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale hospital under construction and scheduled to open in fall 2005. DeKalb Medical Center has more than 1,100 physicians, 3,700 employees and 400 volunteers. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]