ZoneSoft Speech Shield
A substantial number of confidential information leaks occur when careless, innocent and/or work-related chats between employees are picked up by other employee(s) who are unaware of the confi-dentiality of the chat they just overheard.

HIPAA Privacy Rules require implementation of admin-istrative, technical, and physical means to safeguard protected patient health information, in-cluding oral communications. The new oral privacy regulations effect anyone handling (PHI), including hospitals, physician's, counselors, pharmacies, billing agencies and even employers.

Benefits
• Confidentiality
• Fewer “leaks” to media
• Less employee distractions,
...ie higher productivity
• Maintains “need to know” structure
• Eliminates rumor mill
• Complies with Health Information
...Portability and Accountability Act

Oral Privacy Regulations

“Privacy” is becoming a major issue in the 21st century. The number of lawsuits is rising fast in the area of damage by information leakage. Financial institutions were the first to use speech shield technology in a large office room environment. Now however, speech shield installations are spreading quickly to government offices, hospitals, libraries, help-desk services, and such places where maintenance of privacy is paramount.
This system effectively reduces the acuity of overheard conversations and thus makes it very hard to understand dialog by those trying to listen in (See back page for explanation).