Securing B2B Pervasive Information Sharing between Healthcare Providers: Enabling the Foundation for Evidence based Medicine

Evidence based Medicine is emerging as a key process in Health care to enable insights driven quality care for individual patients. The core of making evidence based medicine a reality is information sharing between healthcare entities. However, the sharing of information across health care providers has security implications. The old methods of securing enterprises using perimeter defense models are likely to fall short; hence new innovative methods such as dynamic learning threat defense systems that perform rapid detection based on flow, signature, behavior, packet capturing techniques in addition to security policies and protection schemes are required to ensure security of the information exchanged as well as other threats to information and systems within the enterprise. Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data is the foundation to enable such pervasive information sharing that is required for enabling evidence based care model to achieve better health outcomes.