Memorial Healthcare System's Privacy and Security Comeback: From Reported Breach to Patient Privacy Excellence

May 29, 2019

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The Challenge

Memorial Healthcare System (MHS) was facing over ten patient record access alerts per week, creating too much data for a proper investigation. Other challenges they needed to solve included ensuring compliance of Epic Care Connect access for affiliated healthcare providers and ACO affiliate patient privacy adherence. Discover how Memorial made a comeback and are now a purveyor of patient privacy excellence with help from FairWarning's Patient Privacy Intelligence and Managed Privacy Services.

The Results

90% reduction in specific security alerts
Equivalent time savings equal to two full-time employees
Manage the full lifecycle of a security incident
Stellar privacy compliance audits

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