Dignity and confidentiality of patients are the absolute values as well as the primary concern of healthcare organizations. Since technology advances and the implementation of the concept of digital healthcare is increasing, the protection of patient’s sensitive health information is especially important. That is where solutions such as Intruno’s Patient Privacy monitoring platform can come in to further strengthen compliance and security measures to ensure the absolute privacy of such information.
Intruno Protects Everyone from Patient Data Exposure
Intruno’s privacy solution encompasses a full suite of privacy surveillance solutions, including managed service and integrated privacy solutions, that help healthcare providers regain control of compliance risk. Their solutions are specific to monitoring patient data entry and reporting suspicious activities within networks, servers, applications, and devices.
With Intruno, hospitals and clinics can:
Pervasive monitoring of the systems and users should be performed to detect improper access in real time
– Get notification of any compliance issue or policy infringement regarding patient privacy on the spot
Find out the root of any unauthorized access to such information that may be deemed unreasonable
Minus – Protect data from insider threats or external attacks on systems on which patient data is stored
Such end-to-end visibility and control are important to maintaining patients’ trust and compliance with various laws such as HIPAA.
Automation of Privacy Audits and Reports
Monitoring and tracking access to health records and eventually producing compliance reports can be very cumbersome if one is not well equipped. Intruno has ensured that it becomes very easy for healthcare organizations to meet legal privacy audit requirements.
To support this, Intruno’s platforms are designed to independently gather user activity information and prepare comprehensive audit reports anytime. This helps to:
– Minimise the time spent in preparing the privacy audit reports
– Reduce compliance costs significantly in the long run
– The documents must be readily available to furnish the audit evidence that audit committees demand from different regulatory organizations.
Further, for lengthy information preservation, Intruno also provides a feature for logging and encrypting the data to ensure that any change in the access of patients’ information is safe and secure. These transparency logs are also useful in investigations since they are archived enabling a forensic analysis of information.
Electronic Health Record Information and Monitoring Systems
The digital records, and e-prescribing systems together with other related technologies have patient data of various forms – lab results, treatment schedules, prescriptions, images, etc. Securing those networks is crucial in order to shield necessary systems and to avoid leakage of information that may be used maliciously.
Intruno assists healthcare organizations adopt least privilege access, MFA, and other methods to control and permit only legitimate activities on the data. Their agent-based approach collects detailed visibility into:
Application to request access, login, search, and inquire about EHR applications
This is revealed by the changing user behavior on backends with the information of patients.
– Distortion labels associated with high frequency and intensity of system application
The 24×7 monitoring features can identify malicious insiders’ behavior in remote patient record databases before data leakage.
Final Thoughts
The protection of patient health information can thus be said to be the cornerstone of the provision of healthcare in organizations today. Far-advanced privacy monitoring systems such as Intruno can help them conform to such acts as HIPAA and in the progress help them regain the trust of the patients. Intruno’s range of platforms and managed services assist in enhancing the security of the data and the information yet provide authorized access – privacy and functionality do not have to be mutually exclusive.
