Vyatta Virtual Firewall Addresses HIPAA Compliance for Thrasys

BELMONT, Calif., Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Vyatta,
the leader in software-based networking for physical, virtual and
cloud infrastructures, today announced that the Vyatta virtual
machine and virtual firewall solutions have been selected to
provide HIPAA compliant network security for Thrasys, Inc., a
provider of new generation health information technology to deploy
scalable, collaborative healthcare networks that enable information
sharing, care coordination and population risk management. Vyatta’s
unique approach to networking enables Thrasys to easily protect its
customers’ sensitive medical data with a stringent level of
security that achieves HIPAA compliance.

“Vyatta provides Thrasys customers with a level of security that
not only protects sensitive personal information, but also meets
HIPAA compliance, a crucial requirement for our EHR solutions,”
said Randy Belknap, chief technology officer and vice president of
engineering at Thrasys. “Our Vyatta virtual firewall also allows us
to offer providers, patients and service centers easy access to
on-demand applications – from anywhere, at any time.”

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriates
$44,000 in annual payments to medical practices that adopt a
certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Thrasys depends on
the Vyatta virtual firewall to deliver a secure, cloud-based
coordinated care EHR system to healthcare providers, ensuring that
Thrasys’ customers qualify for stimulus funds. Thrasys front-ends a
pool of servers in a public cloud where Vyatta is the primary
router and firewall, while Vyatta virtual machines provide
per-customer IPSec VPN access to secure customer data transmission
from hospitals and physician groups.

Vyatta’s application-centric approach to networking allows for
complete migration of routing, firewall, VPN and IPS to virtual
environments. Vyatta ensures that organizations requiring hi

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