Imprivata PrivacyAlert
Protect Patient Health Information From Being Exposed
With the proliferation of electronic patient information, hospital administrators, compliance officers, privacy officers and information security officers are required to enforce patient privacy. Motivated by patient-citizen damages from increased healthcare privacy breaches, law-makers across the United States, Canada, and Europe have enacted new regulation protecting patient privacy and penalizing those involved. Snooping, identity theft and general inappropriate access of medical records are now explicitly prohibited. Additionally, a patient’s right to know who has accessed their records has been expanded, requiring hospitals and their business associates to account and disclose for personal health information breaches. Beyond putting patients at risk, personal health information breaches are increasingly putting healthcare organizations at a significant risk of financial, and reputational harm.
“Deployment of robust processes to ensure privacy and security of electronic medical records is critical to achieving their widespread deployment. The American public will not accept failure when it comes to protecting their healthcare information from privacy breaches.”Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH CMO, Imprivata, DocNetwork and HIMMS Chair 2009-2010.
Proactively Investigate and Audit Patient Health Information Breaches
Imprivata healthcare division delivers solutions to help hospitals gain control over their patient’s data privacy exposure as they align with state/provincial and country legislations. Privacy Officers can now be proactive in investigating and auditing personal health information breaches. Snooping, identity theft and general inappropriate access of medical records are quickly detected through Imprivata PrivacyAlert automated pattern recognition, delivering alerts on 100+ patient privacy scenarios.
Imprivata PrivacyAlert enables privacy officers, along with information security officers, to deploy automated and scalable privacy surveillance solutions that assist them in investigating and reporting on patient data privacy breaches. They can be relieved from the manual complexity of accessing, sorting and reporting audit trails associated with privacy breaches. Privacy officers can manage with ease all of the increasing regulatory mandated functions and perform required audits in a timely and scalable manner. More importantly, through the use of Imprivata PrivacyAlert, healthcare organizations can deter snooping and medical identity theft and ultimately establish a culture of privacy and compliance.
Imprivata PrivacyAlert Features and Benefits:
- Proactive monitoring and automatic breach detection with filtering and alerting
Automated pattern recognition, delivering alerts on 100+ patient privacy scenarios including ID theft patterns and snooping patterns (VIP record snooping, co-worker, family member and neighbor snooping) - Out-of-the-box support for all leading healthcare applications including Eclipsys, GE Centricity Enterprise, MEDITECH Magic, Siemens Invision and others
- Easy-to-use Web-based interface appropriate for privacy audit and information security personnel
- Ability to set and focus investigation criteria on employee, patient or combination of both
- Compliance automation with support for filtering and alerting
- Policy engine which includes best practices from dozens of healthcare providers
- Ability to create, save and share ad hoc reports including a forensically secure master audit log repository