MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Westbridge Technology announced it has been selected by Partners HealthCare to provide XML security for communication with their B2B partners. After a thorough evaluation of solution providers, Partners HealthCare chose Westbridge Technology to secure sensitive information and provide the auditing and tracking capabilities required for compliance. Partners HealthCare provides significant momentum for Westbridge Technology in the healthcare sector as they expand from their core customer base of Financial Services, Government and Manufacturing.
Partners HealthCare has rigorous security requirements to protect sensitive, patient-confidential information exchanged within and across the enterprise. As with all organizations in the healthcare industry, Partners HealthCare must adhere to the strict standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Westbridge Technology ensures security and integrity for XML and Web Services communications for Partners HealthCare while providing targeted auditing for assurance and compliance.
"In the healthcare industry, mission criticality takes on a special meaning, requiring extremely high levels of availability, performance, security, data privacy, data integrity and accountability," said Steve Flammini, CTO at Partners HealthCare. "We are using Westbridge Technology to provide end-to-end security, message integrity and high performance for our B2B communication. The Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS) is noninvasive and easy to deploy, enabling us to quickly, easily and securely add partners to our extensive network."
Partners HealthCare will be using the Westbridge XMS to exchange patient- confidential information stored in their legacy MUMPS systems and Microsoft .NET applications with outside parties such as doctors, pharmacies and insurance companies. Using the XMS, Partners HealthCare ensures that each message is filtered for application-layer malicious attacks and then authenticated, authorized, validated and verified. Westbridge Technology also provides performance acceleration, enabling Partners HealthCare to meet their requirements for sub-second response times for service requests.
Partners HealthCare has a mix of legacy XML and Web Services interfaces. Westbridge Technology enables seamless and secure communication among all Web Services providing interoperability and brokering capabilities without requiring any coding. Partners HealthCare is using a combination of client- side and gateway technologies from Westbridge Technology to satisfy a number of different deployment requirements.
Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Westbridge Technology adds, "We are very excited to work with Partners HealthCare. They have an excellent reputation of using only the best, advanced technologies to improve the quality of care for their patients. We look forward to helping them securely and cost- effectively deploy Web Services across a number of projects."
About Partners HealthCare
Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners HealthCare is a leading Boston- based center for clinical research with more than 1,600 principal investigators and 1,000 clinical trials currently underway across the network. Partners is an integrated health care delivery system that offers patients throughout the region a continuum of coordinated high-quality care. The system includes primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, the two founding academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers and other health-related entities. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization. Further information is available on the Web at http://www.partners.org/.
About Westbridge Technology
Westbridge Technology provides Web Services security and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement solutions. The company's flagship product, the Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS), delivers a broad range of standards-based and regulatory-compliant capabilities designed to seamlessly connect, secure and manage XML Web Services networks. Westbridge XMS is deployed by leading Global 1000 corporations and public sector institutions including Travelers Property Casualty, Federal Trade Commission and the Danish Government. For more information, please visit http://www.westbridgetech.com/.
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