Healthcare is increasingly relying on advanced information and communication technologies. These technologies are used to optimise cost-effectiveness and healthcare quality. However, stringent legal requirements concerning privacy, revision security and reliability entail technological challenges. Highly specialised knowledge of the legal ramifications as well as the technologies and the corresponding security requirements are needed to solve the dichotomy between increased cost-effectiveness and healthcare quality on the one hand and stringent requirements in terms of processes and systems on the other hand.

Due to its broad background and comprehensive know-how, secunet has successfully mastered these challenges in a great number of customer projects.

Overview of our services:

• Process and technology consulting for the introduction of secure IT systems in the field of the electronic health smart card, the required telematic infrastructure and additional value-added applications in the field of healthcare
• Design and implementation of secure systems for health telematics (e.g. highly secure access networks, integration of smart cards into existing IT systems, solutions for qualified electronic signatures and secure, service-oriented architectures)
• Creation of portal infrastructures for the secure access of all stakeholders to sensitive, medical data (insured patients, providers of healthcare services, healthcare institutions, etc.).
• Revision-secure and legislation-compliant design of healthcare processes and systems
• Consulting in establishment and certification of security management processes according to ISO 17799 and ISO 27001 for health insurance companies and other cost objects as well as providers of healthcare services
• Design and implementation of security concepts according to the recommendations of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
• Planning and implementation of smart card management solutions and Public Key Infrastructures for the healthcare field according to the requirements of gematik (German Society for Telematic Applications of the Healthcare Card) and the German Digital Signature Act as well as other directives