BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caradigm, the leader in enterprise population health, today announced that Caradigm Provisioning has achieved certification in the FairWarning Ready® for Identity Management program, creating an integrated solution that offers healthcare organizations enhanced data privacy monitoring and alerting.
Hospitals using Caradigm Provisioning with the FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring Platform (“FairWarningPlatform”) will be able to more rapidly determine if there is inappropriate access to patient records when they receive alerts and then take actions to remediate the problem.
“Operating Caradigm Provisioning and the FairWarning Platform together has enhanced our organization’s ability to proactively discover, respond to, and mitigate potential security incidents,” said Vincent Berretta, manager of security for Virtua, one of New Jersey’s largest health systems. “As a result, Virtua has been able to further solidify our overall security posture.”
Part of Caradigm’s suite of Identity and Access Management solutions for healthcare, Caradigm Provisioning helps healthcare organizations minimize security and compliance risk through role-based management of user identity. By codifying access and entitlement rights for the organization in a central repository, and by managing the creation, modification and termination of user access to clinical and core systems, Caradigm Provisioning helps organizations protect patient data while giving their clinicians rapid access to the applications and information they need to perform their jobs.
“Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented risks to patient privacy and security, and they’re not fully prepared to manage that risk,” said Ralf Klein, vice president, identity and access management, Caradigm. “Caradigm’s collaboration with FairWarning® will give health systems the comprehensive tools they need to quickly pinpoint security issues and take steps to rectify them.”
FairWarning Ready® for Identity Management is a comprehensive program designed to help hospital customers make better use of their existing investment in IT infrastructure. The FairWarning Ready® for Identity Management program enables identity management application vendors to seamlessly integrate with FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring to provide customers with advanced privacy monitoring and alerting.
“By leveraging identity management investments, healthcare providers are able to dramatically reduce the time and effort required to integrate key user identity data and deliver sustainable compliance through their patient privacy monitoring program,” said Shane Whitlatch, FairWarning enterprise vice president.
Customers that integrate Caradigm Provisioning with the FairWarning Platform now have the following capabilities when privacy alerts are triggered:
- Caradigm’s Provisioning solution provides FairWarning® with a more complete view of the users accessing systems through a daily import of provisioned users. The additional information, including their location, department, role, telephone number, email address, manager’s name, etc. provides the security and privacy managers need when performing an investigation.
- Using Caradigm’s Provisioning solution, security officers can then take critical security actions, such as suspending all access to clinical applications until the investigation of the person in question is complete; modifying access rights to certain pieces of the clinical application; or removing all access completely from that clinical application.
- By alerting security officers with potential problems, providing them with additional information and empowering them to take critical actions, Caradigm and FairWarning® can now provide customers with a more complete lifecycle of patient privacy protection.
With customers representing over 7,000 facilities globally, FairWarning® is seeing increased investment in identity management infrastructure across the healthcare industry. The FairWarning® Ready program focuses on partnering with identity management vendors who have demonstrated a track record of customer success in the healthcare industry, to speed and improve patient privacy monitoring deployments and to protect against inadvertent, criminal and fraudulent misuse of electronic health records.
About FairWarning®
FairWarning®’s mission is to lead the industry expansion of trust in Electronic Health Records empowering care providers to grow their reputation for protecting confidentiality, scale their digital health initiatives and comply with complex Federal and state privacy laws such as HIPAA. By partnering with FairWarning®, care providers are able to direct their focus on delivering the best patient outcomes possible while receiving expert, sustainable and affordable privacy and compliance solutions. Customers consider FairWarning® privacy auditing solutions essential for compliance with healthcare privacy regulations such as ARRA HITECH privacy and meaningful use criteria, HIPAA, UK and EU Data Protection, California SB 541 and AB 211, Texas HB 300, and Canadian provincial healthcare privacy law. For more information on FairWarning® visit http://www.FairWarning.com or email Solutions@FairWarning.com.
About Caradigm
Caradigm is a population health company dedicated to helping organizations improve care, reduce costs, and manage risk. Caradigm analytics solutions provide insight into patients, populations, and performance, enabling healthcare organizations to understand their clinical and financial risk and identify the actions needed to address it. Caradigm population health solutions enable teams to deliver the appropriate care to patients through effective coordination and patient engagement, helping to improve outcomes and financial results. The key to Caradigm analytics and population health solutions is a rich set of clinical, operational, and financial data delivered to healthcare professionals within their workflows in real time. Learn more at: www.caradigm.com.
