What kind of security is used to protect patient data?
eRehabData uses 128-bit SSL encryption for all transmissions between the system and users that contain patient data. This not only allows for data to be sent and received in a non-human readable way, but also ensures that no data is tampered with en-route. This level of encryption is very secure and is similar to the encryption used by financial institutions to transmit account information across the Internet. (According to Netscape’s chief scientist, it would take a “trillion trillion years” to break into a message protected with 128-bit encryption.) Furthermore, the computers that handle the user forms are separate from the database computer where patient information is stored, and the database computer is not accessible from the Internet. Because eRehabData utilizes this compartmentalized processing, someone who gains unauthorized access to one of the web servers cannot access patient data.
