Case Study
FairWarning Enables Proactive Privacy Protection
Overview The Everett Clinic in Everett, Washington has been providing quality care in more than 40 specialties to residents of Snohomish County since 1924. Their 16 clinic locations include surgery centers, urgent care clinics, and a cancer center. The Everett Clinic’s core values specify a commitment to doing what is right for every patient. To support this value, Everett has long had a very strict privacy policy which prohibits staff from accessing any medical records without a business justification. Challenges Over a period of years, in trying to keep up with privacy auditing responsibilities under HIPAA and later ARRA HITECH, information technology staff at Everett had attempted to develop an automated solution to review application audit logs. While exploring the possibiliti