During calendar year 2011, FairWarning^® successfully introduced the following industry initiatives:    

• FairWarning Ready for Electronic Health Record Vendors is an open copyright data definition guide for the consistent production of best-practice privacy breach audit data.  This initiative is designed to make privacy auditing data widely available from healthcare application vendors in order to reduce the effort required "to get the audit data" thereby speeding deployments and reducing overall costs associated with privacy auditing.
     
• Eight (8) major vendors are now formally participating in the program including Allscripts, Epic, GE and McKesson Corporation (19 applications).  Overall, FairWarning^® now provides production support for over 150 healthcare applications.
     
• FairWarning^® 2.9.5 product release that leverages the FairWarning Ready for Electronic Health Record initiative above to streamline healthcare application privacy auditing through template driven point and click interfaces.  2.9.5 enables FairWarning^® Certified Professionals to add audit sources rapidly and instantly enable reporting and breach detection analytics.  FairWarning^® 2.9.5 represents an "orders of magnitude" advance in easing the deployment of privacy breach detection.
     
• FairWarning^® Ready Certified Professional Training announced first courses in February, May and October 2012.  The February class will be conducted at FairWarning headquarters and is currently over-subscribed.  This initiative is designed to improve the effectiveness of FairWarning deployments by providing best practices training. Further, FairWarning^® users and administrators grow their professional credentials and opportunities by receiving FairWarning^® Professional Certification.
     
• Country-wide Surveys to Assess the Impact of Privacy Considerations on Patient Outcomes were conducted and introduced to the media through FairWarning^® in the United States and United Kingdom. The UK survey was particularly popular in the media and received wide-scale coverage in UK healthcare, information security and governmental journals. Comparable surveys have also been completed by FairWarning^® in France, Canada and soon, Australia, with the results planned for release in 2012. This thought-leading global initiative to elevate patient privacy as a priority is the largest of its kind and has demonstrated that privacy impacts when, from whom and where patients receive care. The goal is to transform healthcare privacy from a moral, ethical and legal obligation into an issue that literally impacts the care that patients receive and the associated patient outcomes.   

FairWarning^® now has 150 customers utilizing the company's privacy breach detection software for their entire enterprise. FairWarning^® customers represent over 800 hospitals and 2,500 clinics in 40 US states and six countries.  The company anticipates continued strong growth during 2012 and beyond. 

FairWarning^® is the leader in the privacy breach detection category the company created:   

• The company's privacy breach analytics library is the largest of its kind with over 200 behavior based analytics designed in cooperation with healthcare customers to detect and protect against patient privacy breaches ranging from curiosity based snooping as seen in the media, to life-altering cases involving fraud, identity theft, criminal activities and abuses of all kinds
     
• FairWarning^® has no peer comparison in the category of production supported healthcare applications.  The company's privacy breach solutions provide turn-key production support for well over 150 electronic health record and healthcare applications including those from, Agfa, Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, GE, InterSystems, iSOFT, McKesson, MEDITECH, and Siemens. A more complete list can be found here.
     
• FairWarning^®'s market-leading customers range in size from independent 155 bed hospitals up to health systems which span 70 hospitals, over 400 clinics and 132,000 employees.  Over 55 % of the company's customers have been recognized as Healthcare's Most Wired, Verispan 100, and U.S. News Best Hospitals, as well as multiple customers being recognized with the Malcolm Baldrige Award for Quality
     
• KLAS Research has published coverage of FairWarning^® privacy breach detection at www.klasresearch.com, in which the company earned two KLAS rankings of 100% within the Service & Support and Sales & Contracting categories
     
• FairWarning^®, in collaboration with its partners, has the largest production reference-able privacy breach detection deployments in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
     
• FairWarning^® solutions are also offered by dozens of other value added resellers such as CynergisTek, Forsythe, McKesson Corporation and Northgate Information Services across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe
     
• FairWarning^® is partnered with the world's leading information security companies.  Each of the following company's security information and event management (SIEM) product has been formally certified as "FairWarning^® Ready": ArcSight an HP company, EMC-RSA, NetForensics, NitroSecurity, Novell, Q1-Labs and Symantec
     
• The United States' largest healthcare IT company, McKesson Corporation, resells FairWarning® privacy detection solutions and offers dedicated services toward deployments for McKesson customers. FairWarning^® is the only company to have certified McKesson applications (27) for privacy breach detection. McKesson and FairWarning^® are conducting on-going joint product development and marketing. For more information on the partnership click here.
     
• The United States' #1 independent information security reseller, FishNet, partners with FairWarning^® to provide privacy breach detection to their major healthcare customers
     
• NHS Scotland, comprised of 14 area NHS boards throughout Scotland, selected FairWarning^® to enhance patients' privacy. NHS Scotland, which employs 132,000, including more than 8,500 doctors, selected FairWarning^® through its partner, Northgate Managed Services, based on previous success providing privacy auditing and monitoring at NHS Lothian and NHS Fife   

FairWarning^®'s Executive Webinar Series is attended by thousands of healthcare professionals annually, the materials and recordings from each of the webinars are downloaded tens of thousands of times. 

Recent thought-leading featured speakers have included: 

• Chuck Burbank, Information Security Manager, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
     
• Randy Gainer, Davis Wright Tremaine / HHS and Providence Health Settlement
 
• Debe Gash, VP and CIO of Saint Luke's Health System
     
• Adam Greene, Davis Wright Tremaine / former HHS regulator, nationally-recognized authority on HIPAA & HITECH
     
• John Houston, UPMC VP, Information Security and Privacy and Assistant Counsel
     
• Deven McGraw, Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology
     
• Mac McMillan, Chair of HIMSS Privacy and Security and CEO of CynergisTek
     
• Christopher Paidhrin, Security and Compliance Officer for Southwest Washington
     
• Randy Yates, Director of Security, Memorial Hermann Health
     
• Other FairWarning^® privacy breach detection customers
     
• Past FairWarning^® webinars can be downloaded or replayed here
  

FairWarning^® developed the Patient Privacy Framework, a thought-leading series of open copyright guides released to encourage wide-scale privacy breach detection by providing technical and business process blueprints and examples of best practices. These guides are now in wide-scale use with customers, service partners, information security and electronic health record vendors. The FairWarning^® Patient Privacy Framework guides consist of the following:   

• Patient Privacy Data Definition Guide
     
• Patient Privacy in Enterprise Security Data Definition Guide
     
• Implementation Toolkit for Privacy Breach Detection
  

The guides can by requested on-line here.

In 2011, FairWarning^® released a comprehensive survey of US patients or consumers of care providers to determine how patient privacy considerations impact the delivery of healthcare entitled "How Privacy Considerations Drive Patient Decisions and Impact Patient Care Outcomes." The survey sought to measure how privacy considerations affect patient behaviors and decisions, and influence patient care outcomes; its results were used in testimony in U.S. Senate hearings regarding HIPAA & HITECH updates.  

Survey results can be found here.

Also in 2011, the company released FairWarning^® Ready for Healthcare Applications, a program designed to fundamentally reduce the cost and complexity of wide scale patient privacy auditing. Developed through collaboration with customers and EHR vendors to deliver standards, the program provides a comprehensive, practical blueprint for implementing affordable and wide-scale privacy auditing, and strategies for regulatory compliance and ensuring patient privacy. The FairWarning^® Ready for Healthcare Applications program consists of:   

• FairWarning^® Data Definition Guide 2.0
     
• Data Certifications for Electronic Healthcare Records and Healthcare Application Vendors
     
• General Availability of FairWarning^® 2.9.5
     
• Professional Certification Programs
     
• New FairWarning^® Pricing Model
  

To view a video about FairWarning^® Ready for Healthcare Applications, click here.