eGestalt's New HI-SCAN Tool Paves Way for HIPAA Security and Compliance Automati on on the Quick eGestalt

Technologies, announced HI-SCAN, a quick and inexpensive way for health care service providers to quickly identify and manage high-risk medical practice s and business associates that are short on fulfilling HIPAA/HITECH compliance r equirements. Santa Clara, CA (USA), Friday - November 11, 2011 -- eGestalt Technologies ( htt p://www.eGestalt.com ), a leading provider of cloud-based, SaaS-delivered, secur ity and IT governance, risk management and compliance solutions for SMBs to ente rprises, announced HI-SCAN, a quick and inexpensive way for healthcare service p roviders to quickly identify and manage high-risk medical practices and business associates that are short on fulfilling HIPAA/HITECH compliance requirements.Th e HI-SCAN tool can be used by both medical providers and theirmany business asso ciates - contractors, hazardous waste collectors, blood work laboratories, et. a l. -that serve covered entities on a daily basis. Says eGestalt President Anupam Sahai, "There are some 3 million medical provider s and business associates who can use HI-SCAN to snap a valuable audit/assessmen t picture; to understand high-risk problem areas that need immediate attention i n order to comply with HIPAA/HITECH and avoid being sacked by fines." HI-SCAN is a low-cost self-assessment tool that can be added on to the base Secu reGRC solution which can be used to e-mail a short questionnaire of 20+ critical requirements to flag areas of non-compliance. It helps medical practices gain c ontrol and improve more than 200+ HIPAA/HITECH compliance points, before they ar e flagged as serious problems. Based on its results, users can quickly identify and prioritize the problem area s that need to be escalated. Given that medium to large covered entities deal wi th about 100+ BAs in the course of running their business, HI-SCAN is a quick so lution for generating a quick audit/assessment, alerting both the CE and BA of p roblem areas in fulfilling their mandatory HIPAA compliance ( http://www.egestal t.com ) requirements and focus on the high-risk associates and consultants who n eed immediate attention. "A critical aspect of doing business within the Healthcare community, and as req uired by HIPAA/HITECH, is anyone who has access to PHI, is bound by the same reg ulations as the customers they serve," added Sahai. "And the penalties for non-c ompliance are getting stiffer. It is no longer a paltry $100 as the fines have b een raised to a maximum of $50,000.And if it is proven that you are willfully ne glectful, the fines can increase from $25,000 to $1.5 million with criminal pena lties." Healthcare data breaches have affected nearly 11.6 million individuals, out of w hich 6 million records were irresponsibly handled by BAs. The average number of individuals per breach through the BA was 102,678. [Source: HHS]. http://www.hhs .gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/postedbreaches.html

The Federal government has set aside $20 billion for upgrading the healthcare IT infrastructure by the year 2014 - spelling a huge upside for the channel. Servi ce providers can pursue federal meaningful use dollars to the tune of $40,000 per qua ified physician practice. SecureGRC generates the necessary reports for proving compliance. eGestalt s channel strategy involves the certification of Managed Compliance Provide rs (MCPs), a channel program based around a proprietary "cookbook" that serves a s an introduction and training guide for partners just getting started with deli vering managed compliance services.

For further details please call (408) 689-2586 or email sales@egestalt.com. For further details about the product, please visit http://www.egestalt.com. About eGestalt Technologies Inc.: eGestalt (www.egestalt.com) is a world-class, innovation driven, leading provide r of cloud-computing based enterprise solutions for information security and ITGRC management. eGestalt is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, and has offices in the US, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. eGestalt was nominated Breakthrough Techn ology Vendor at XChange Americas, Aug. 2010, and selected by SiliconIndia among the "Top 10 Security Companies to Watch." Its SecureGRC application was voted r unner-up in the Managed Services Category at XChange Tech Innovators, Nov. 2010. The company was selected by Everything Channel as a 2011 CRN Emerging Technolog y Vendor, and a 2011 Tech Innovator in the Managed Services category. Press & Media Contact: Victor Cruz, Principal MediaPR.net For eGestalt Technologies Santa Clara, CA - USA +1 978-594-4134 vcruz@mediapr.net http://www.egestalt.com