Solutions for the Healthcare Sector
Healthcare providers have used information technology to good effect in streamlining internal processes and automating the availability of patient data. However, these advances have come with an increase in compliance and governance risks in relation to the responsibility of preserving the confidentiality and privacy of patient records. The governance environment within which healthcare providers operate has been reinforced by statutory and regulatory frameworks, specific to the healthcare community, directed at the management of confidential data and records.
Baronscourt’s intelligent policy management solution allows healthcare providers to align the awareness of employees and contractors to the governance responsibilities of the organisation. Throughout the world, the healthcare industry has an obligation not only to meet the highest standards in patient information confidentiality and security, but also to show they are meeting these standards.
The MetaCompliance Suite guarantees employee participation in Policy and Compliance communication. As a result, the system will provide the necessary management tools to implement appropriate policy and compliance measures to improve audit readiness and demonstrate compliance in internal processes and employee best practice.
Benefits for Healthcare Providers
- Mitigate the risk of compliance failure as a result of patient information leakage.
- Enforce the interaction of employees and contractors with policy and compliance initiatives.
- Survey staff understanding of governance and security best practice.
- Underpin best practice methodologies – ITIL, COBIT, ISO27001.
- Provide the audit information and reporting functionality needed to demonstrate compliance.
Compliance communication outside of the office
- MetaCompliance Laptop helps reinforce the value of data and obtain staff acceptance of the risk of data residing in portable form.
- MetaCompliance Non-electronic allows the originator to involve non computer users and obtain their responses in a unified system for the management of governance policy.
The MetaCompliance suite from Baronscourt gives healthcare providers an easy to use solution which automates the ever increasing burden of information governance and employee compliance. The software is a critical management tool when the time comes to demonstrate compliance in the form of an audit or a high profile leakage of patient information.
