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HIPAA-Compliant Data Sharing Tool Released by Nirvana

(July 31, 2007)-- Nirvana Storage, a division of General Atomics, announced that its newest version of Storage Resource Broker, SRB 2007, is ready to support implementation of data systems that are HIPAA-compliant. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a US regulation that includes rules to safeguard personal health information and to ensure the access and portability of such records.

SRB, a powerful tool for data sharing, discovery, archiving and automation, helps build and integrate healthcare IT systems while providing security and privacy support. Features available in SRB, such as advanced authentication, audit trail, integrity check and customizable metadata management, are imperative to the healthcare sector as IT Managers strive to meet the challenge of making systems and networks compliant with HIPAA.

With SRB, systems can be designed or upgraded to comply with the HIPAA auditing requirements from the Department of Human and Health Services in areas such as:

-- Integrity: SRB has a built-in mechanism to verify that data has not been compromised
-- Authenticity: User ID (password/biometrics); digital certification and digital signature
-- Confidentiality: Centralized access control; encrypted document pipeline
-- Traceability: Time-stamping and audit trail; complete system history and operation log

SRB is compatible with a variety of data storage systems, and offers a Global Namespace, an extension of a standard file system hierarchy containing files and other data residing on dispersed and usually disparate data sources. The Global Namespace is used to access, manage, search, and organize data across the entire SRB-based data federation. SRB also features a Metadata Catalog (MCAT), a relational database that manages the metadata of each and every data object and enables search and retrieval of unstructured data, such as medical images and other PACS data.

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