ClearDATA®, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, today expanded their ClearDATA Comply™ Software as a Service (SaaS) compliance management product to include Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services. With this new addition to the ClearDATA portfolio of products, more healthcare providers, payers and life sciences organizations can adopt Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud services while mitigating risk of security vulnerabilities with real-time compliance checks and automated remediation.

By investing deeply in cloud and healthcare compliance expertise, ClearDATA protects sensitive healthcare data in the cloud by strategically mapping critical standards and regulations like HIPAA, GxP and GDPR to relevant technical controls. The company’s flagship SaaS product, Comply is designed to detect and immediately remediate compliance deviations, while providing near real-time reporting with clear, auditable and visual confirmation of the users’ compliance status. This helps healthcare organizations to meet compliance obligations throughout the lifecycle of an application and frees IT assets to invest in the latest cloud technology.

“PHI is extremely sensitive and requires a sophisticated marriage of deep cloud expertise and comprehensive compliance to keep secure. Most healthcare providers and life science organizations do not have the expertise or in house capability to tackle such a complex objective,” said Suhas Kelkar, ClearDATA’s Chief Product Officer. “With Comply, healthcare organizations can leverage the power, flexibility and inherent security of the Azure cloud with even greater confidence – thus accelerating adoption of Azure and increasing the speed of innovation.”

As of today, the solution automatically configures over 70 controls across 32 of the most commonly used Azure services for sensitive patient data (PHI/PII) in healthcare including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Machine Learning as well as PaaS based services like Azure SQL. ClearDATA is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has offered managed security, compliance and privacy solutions on Microsoft Azure since 2015. ClearDATA will further collaborate with Microsoft to support its sensitive data workloads, with plans to add new HIPAA-eligible Azure services to ClearDATA Comply every quarter.

“As digital patient care solutions provide more data to doctors, healthcare organizations are leveraging the Azure cloud to gain insight from their data and transform to a value-based care model focused on improving patient outcomes and experience. With ClearDATA Comply’s availability in the Azure Marketplace, we’ve brought together Microsoft’s strength in cloud services and ClearDATA’s deep understanding of complex healthcare regulations to offer a solution that allows healthcare to innovate and mitigate risk,” said David Houlding, Microsoft’s Director of Healthcare Experiences.

“Platform as a Service (PaaS), machine learning (ML) and other advanced Azure services are driving rapid healthcare innovation,” said ClearDATA Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Matt Ferrari. “ClearDATA sees a need to invest in our longstanding strategic partnership with Microsoft to apply our best security, compliance and privacy practices on top of them.”

The collaboration between ClearDATA and Microsoft Azure is evidenced by the value healthcare organizations such as BehaVR are realizing by implementing ClearDATA Comply for Azure. A provider of VR digital therapeutics and wellness programs for behavioral health, BehaVR uses Comply for Azure to manage and enforce compliance and security of their application. This frees their development team to focus on continued innovation in virtual reality for healthcare versus navigating how to configure a compliant cloud environment.

ClearDATA launched its Comply multi-cloud solution in December 2019 with early availability for Amazon Web Services (AWS). With its expansion to include support for Microsoft Azure, ClearDATA Comply provides a multi-cloud view of compliance within a single pane of glass.

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ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security and compliance, announced a new multi-cloud software offering, ClearDATA Locate, enabling healthcare organizations to build a more cohesive and traceable protected health information (PHI) inventory within Kubernetes workloads available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Built with ClearDATA’s Healthcare Aware Distributed Tracing technology, this new software solution makes it easier for healthcare industry professionals to observe sensitive data in transit or at rest in any Kubernetes application, allowing for better protection against breaches, improved auditing and significant reductions in potential damages and fines.

“We’ve come a long way since healthcare was at odds with the public cloud. However, the ability to track sensitive data as it moves from point A to Z was missing from the narrative and represented a huge vulnerability for healthcare organizations,” said Matt Ferrari, Chief Technology Officer at ClearDATA.

“Now, with ClearDATA Locate, payers, providers and life science orgs can have more insight into their data to trace PHI when leveraging microservices.”

Today, medical providers and insurance companies gather, store and share a wealth of sensitive personal information on the cloud, from addresses and social security numbers to payment information and patients’ health records, with more than 194 million active patients in the U.S. healthcare system.

Faced with complex privacy, security and compliance frameworks including GDPR’s Right to be Forgotten, the ability to accurately trace vast amounts of distributed patient records through ClearDATA Locate provides healthcare organizations with a full understanding of the systems that patient data passes through.

Further, as the healthcare industry faces an all-time record number of massively expensive security breaches, ClearDATA Locate can greatly reduce damages and penalties by helping isolate and identify the actual records exposed. This allows for an accurate report of how many records were actually compromised, instead of assuming the compromise of all records stored.

With ClearDATA Locate, healthcare and life sciences organizations faced with compromised data can potentially save a tremendous amount in issued fines by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and reduce damage to reputation.

“Today, if you routinely process tens of thousands of patient records through your application, you would have to notify all those patients of a suspected breach when, in reality, only 200 records may have been impacted. ClearDATA Locate can dramatically change the outcome for healthcare organizations and patients,” said Ferrari.

ClearDATA first launched the Healthcare Aware Distributed Tracing technology earlier this year at HIMSS 2019.

Leveraging machine learning technology, the new service makes it easier for healthcare organizations to observe sensitive data in rest or transit through microservices including containers allowing for deeper analytics while creating a reliable and continually updated inventory.

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