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Reduce the Cost to Achieving HIPAA Security Compliance with Lumension® Solutions

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Overview Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule.

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Publisher	Lumension	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Standards, Security Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA

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