Oracle has announced Oracle Security Governor for Healthcare. A component of the Oracle Health Management Platform, Oracle Security Governor is the first integrated, out-of-the-box security governance solution specialized for the needs of healthcare organizations.

Oracle Security Governor provides both retrospective fraud detection and real-time fraud prevention to help healthcare organizations identify and stop malicious activity immediately. It integrates with online and offline resources to improve system and organizational learning and helps build a comprehensive security profile.

Leveraging the foundation of Oracle Identity Management 11g as well as Oracle Data Mining and Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Security Governor offers risk-monitoring capabilities such as analytics and reporting to provide complete visibility into data and application access and suspicious insider activity, helping customers meet regulatory compliance needs.

Specific capabilities include:

Historical Privacy and Security Breach Detection: used for audit trails and for detection of suspicious activities related to access, privacy, fraud and security breaches that have taken place in the past.

Real Time Privacy and Security Breach Detection and Prevention: detects and prevents suspicious and fraudulent activity, such as medical theft or insider snooping on confidential and sensitive information, in real time.

Rapid Incident Investigation: criteria based automated reporting functionality that allows rapid incident detection and workflow.

Automated Privacy Audits: audits activities of various entities and applications and reports suspicious activities, so the organization can monitor and manage privacy.

Customizable Risk Analytics and Reports: customizable risk analytics and reporting provides healthcare organizations with the insights that matter most to meet demanding security and compliance programs.

Supporting Quotes

“The transformation of the healthcare IT infrastructure, with the aim of involving consumers, physicians, payers, employers and government as never before, has created unique business challenges concerning security and privacy,” said Rohit Gupta, vice president of Identity Management, Oracle. “With Oracle Security Governor, healthcare organizations can now have the first complete solution to audit and manage security in real-time that helps prevent fraudulent operations and protect their clients’ privacy, while still meeting compliance requirements.”

“Implementation of the health IT stimulus provisions is upon us, and federal policymakers are increasingly focused on security and privacy as key to building and maintaining public trust in the digital health revolution,” said Deven McGraw, director, health privacy project, Center for Democracy & Technology. “New requirements have raised the bar, and health care organizations are likely to face growing expectations in security and privacy over the next several years.”