Privacy Solutions

Employee Benefit Specialists has made considerable investments in privacy solutions for 1) internal purposes to protect the data we manage for clients; and 2) externally to assist employers in securing data for enrollment and administration purposes requiring transmission in secure formats.

Secure Transport

Employee Benefit Specialists' secure data transport solution is a business process solution offering security and reliability at the highest performance levels. It provides secure file transfer and data integration over the Internet and private IP networks, with enterprise class features, including:

• Support for both FTP/S and HTTP/S protocols for secure data transfer
• The strongest levels of authentication, data encryption and audit trails
• Guaranteed delivery and data integrity with retransmits for failed transfers
• Reliable transfer of very large files with checkpoint/restart
• Scheduled batch transfers
• Transaction management for structured EDI and XML messages
• Thin and thick clients available across a wide range of operating systems
• Integration with many authentication systems including LDAP, SSO and PKI
• Event-driven agents, data conversion and application integration
• Distributed deployment architecture for high availability and performance
• Push and pull data delivery with centralized partner management
• Rapid deployment services

The Health and Human Services department of the Federal Government, which enforces HIPAA, recommends reduction of the amount of PHI stored on site by an employer to reduce privacy violations. EBS online enrollment and administration systems provide employers with significant privacy related benefits. Housing the data within EBS encrypted servers allows the employer a significant reduction in the amount of Protected Health Information (PHI) that they store at their location. This information, of course, is readily available to authorized representatives of the employer through online access and reports nrollment

Other Benefits

• Permission based access to the information
• Secure access (utilizes SSL)
• Secure data storage (fully encrypted and protected with firewalls on EBS servers)
• Audit trails
• Employee self service (employee access to PHI is a requirement of HIPAA)