Healthcare
Ensuring safety in different industries
Data processing and access
Medical data protection is a number one challenge. It doesn’t matter how large a company is and what its scope is. In accordance with the law if your organisation processes personal data, especially biometrics, you should provide it with the strongest guard. Otherwise the case will be brought to trial. In order to avoid data leakage and comply with regulators you should manage access rights and isolate data. A clinic is required to have special software which grants an access to certain employees. The activity of those who process personal details should be monitored as well.
The environment where data gets processed is to be isolated from other IT systems. For example, if an employee scans a passport, a computer puts a copy via a special application to some allocated storage automatically — no bypass. This demands attention because many companies, including small ones, lack automated mechanisms for personal data processing. There is only one computer where common software is installed alongside specialized programs, i.e. employees work with confidential information and use unprotected internet sources at the same workplace.
Insider risk mitigation is among the most crucial measures which needs to be taken. Insiders can steal a database: access delimitation parameters can be evaded — a violator can log in to a colleague’s account, make a screenshot, upload data to a USB flash drive or a cloud. Employee monitoring systems will help to prevent such an incident. This type of solutions controls all the information which is transferred within a corporate network and will alert to an employee’s attempt to leak the data.
Employee monitoring systems are installed in many medical institutions. Such software has preconfigured security policies which assist you with information protection against multiple threats from confidential documents and passport scans transfer to an attempt to send a phone number, a clinical record or a case history. All the instruments should be bundled for a more beneficial effect. First of all,
the environment where data gets processed should be isolated from other systems and access rights should be delimitated.
Then the attention should be drawn to every other information protection tool integrated.
Audit and compliance
Improper regulatory compliance results in significant fines and penalties while the industry keeps making requirements more stringent and control measures more rigorous. An incomplete audit puts infrastructure at risk, increasing the number of diagnostic errors and the disorganization of administration processes.
Besides ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance there are more purposes comprised in a healthcare risk management program. Medical malpractice or liability evasion can be highly detrimental to a healthcare service provider, although companies should consider more issues.
A comprehensive solution:
Provides you with all the needed details during investigation
Analyses the workflow and finds weak spots
Ensures that corporate standards and risk levels are continuously evaluated
Assesses current risk management strategy and whether it is relevant
