Attachmate Luminet for Healthcare Protects Patient Privacy

NEW ORLEANS – Mar. 5, 2013 – Today at the HIMSS13 Conference and Exhibition, Attachmate Corporation announced the availability of Attachmate® Luminet® for Healthcare, a solution built to help healthcare organizations protect patient privacy and assist with compliance efforts. For healthcare organizations grappling with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requirements, state privacy laws, meaningful use requirements and accounting of disclosure, Luminet can help identify  cases of fraud and misuse, policy violations, and suspect user behavior across multiple systems.

Attachmate Luminet for Healthcare is designed to provide:

• The ability to correlate data across systems, including application logs and machine data, and capture data that other systems miss.

• Support for compliance efforts related to HIPAA, PCI-DSS and various state and local privacy regulations including California SB 1386, Accounting of Disclosure and Meaningful Use requirements.

• Access to information from key healthcare applications including mainframe applications, Web-based applications, EMR data and leading healthcare applications.

• The ability to enforce corporate security and policies by casting a bright light on security breaches and exceptions.

“We’re seeing a significant increase in customer interest for solutions that can assist with auditing and compliance, especially in the areas of healthcare and government,” said Darin Sanders, vice president of global sales, Novacoast. “Our customers need the user behavior data that Luminet captures. By providing access to innovative tools, like Attachmate Luminet for Healthcare, we continue to help our customers meet their greatest challenges—including mobility, HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliance, making sense of big data and driving real ROI from their legacy systems.”

“Thousands of hospitals and healthcare providers trust Attachmate to help manage and deliver their critical data to doctors, staff and business partners,” said Tom Bice, vice president of marketing and product management for Attachmate. “We’ve added the healthcare expertise gained over the past 30 years into Attachmate Luminet for Healthcare. Our business rules package assists healthcare providers looking to address security and privacy risks. Attachmate Luminet is customizable and can be deployed quickly and easily, allowing healthcare organizations to get back to the work that truly matters: Ensuring patients’ health and well-being.”

More information on Attachmate Luminet for Healthcare.

About Attachmate Corporation

For 30 years, Attachmate has been delivering essential business information to the right users, in the right formats, via the right devices. Today, Attachmate software runs on 19 million desktops and mobile devices—across industries ranging from financial services, healthcare, and government to retail, travel, and manufacturing. Built to integrate existing systems and emerging technologies, our products help organizations worldwide put their IT assets to work in new and meaningful ways.