Cerner Corporation Names SenSage as 'Accelerate Partner of the Year'

One of the leading providers of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, SenSage, Inc., recently announced that Cerner (News - Alert) Corporation has selected them as their “Accelerate Partner of the Year”. SenSage was selected because of its ability to demonstrate significant speed to value for both Cerner as well as its numerous customers. SenSage also went on to announce an expanded alliance with Cerner. The new alliance will offer a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert))-based version of P2Sentinel, which is Cerner’s enterprise clinical system auditing solution.

By joining together the flexibility and affordability benefits of SaaS together with the existing simple deployment and ease-of-use benefits of P2Sentinel, this offering will push for a higher level of compliance across the industry, especially among smaller hospitals where there are IT resource constraints and tight capital expense budgets.  

In a release, Joe Gottlieb, CEO of SenSage said that, “We’re honored that Cerner has named SenSage one of its key partners, based on our success working together to keep confidential patient information safe and secure, and help Cerner clients meet important healthcare compliance requirements. Whereas we normally sell SIEM and Log Management solutions as a separate, horizontal layer of security infrastructure, with Cerner, we are able to embed this technology so that security and compliance are intrinsic to the primary applications running the business of healthcare. This new SaaS version of P2Sentinel based on our scalable multi-tenant SIEM software broadens our collective reach in the healthcare market and will accelerate the industry compliance that is central to healthcare reform initiatives.”

As of now there are over 75 healthcare organizations that use Cerner’s P2Sentinel which is powered by SenSage, which is a comprehensive event logging and auditing solution that is used for tracking end user access to confidential patient data.

John Travis, Cerner senior director of regulatory and compliance said that, “Being able to quickly track how patient information is accessed at any given time is critical for our healthcare clients – they need to be able to demonstrate they are in compliance with the Security requirements of both HIPAA and the HITECH Act.  Over the years, our clients have addressed this requirement more efficiently because of our ability to integrate SenSage’s scalable SIEM and log management capabilities within our solutions. With this new hosted model, we can offer these capabilities in a cost effective manner to smaller healthcare organizations that have limited IT resources but still need to ensure sensitive patient data is safe.”

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