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Taking Care: The Need for Secure Software in Healthcare

Healthcare organizations go to great lengths to protect the confidentiality of their patients' medical information. HIPAA regulations require strict security mechanisms to protect patient data from theft or exposure as it passes between hospitals, insurance agencies, billing clearinghouses and doctors' offices. While protective network-level technologies are part of the organization's critical infrastructure, they do not fundamentally address the underlying issue of software security vulnerabilities. It is only through thorough code analysis that healthcare organizations can address the software vulnerabilities which can jeopardize the integrity of patient data.

This paper will examine the risks posed by vulnerable applications, the regulatory environment impacting this arena, and how healthcare organizations might address the critical task of finding and remediating software security vulnerabilities.

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