West Virginia University Hospitals Simplifies Patient Privacy Auditing with iatricSystems™Security Audit Manager
West Virginia University Hospitals Simplifies Patient Privacy Auditing with iatricSystems™Security Audit Manager
2 PagesWest Virginia University Hospitals Simplifies Patient Privacy Auditing with iatricSystems TM Security Audit Manager TM Objective : West Virginia University (WVU) Hospitals needed a cost-effective way to comply with HIPAA and HITECH rules, which require hospitals to proactively audit patient records to ensure their privacy is protected. SituatiOn : WVU Hospitals’ view of patient information was fragmented and incomplete. In addition to its primary Hospital Information System (HIS), patient data was scattered among a number of disparate clinical systems. With thousands of accesses daily, WVU Hospitals was able to audit only a very small selection of records. Proactive auditing was ongoing, but proved difficult and time consuming due to the lack of a centralized audit record
