TriStrata provides the ultimate in both data protection and privacy assurance, especially important in the management of personal health care information.

Back in 1997 the U.S. Congress called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue patient privacy protections as part of the general provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).  While HIPAA encouraged electronic transactions it required advanced safeguards to be in place to protect the security and confidentiality of all personal health care information.

By April 2003, the HHS implemented the first-ever federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and health care information. These standards require important assurances that access to one’s medical records and more remain protected at all times, with access controlled for physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, health care insurers and their administration and related support organizations.

TriStrata’s TESS security system is one of today’s most powerful solutions that fully protects confidential patient medical records and health care information at all times, whether the information is in storage, in transit or subsequently accessed under policy.  For example, patients and their local health care providers can be enrolled into TESS and then are each able to securely access their personal medical information. Most important, TESS enables patients, doctors, health plans and partners alike to access information while having the assurance that their communications remain confidential – proven secure under the TriStrata audit trail.