Case Study: Halifax Regional Health System achieves proactive privacy monitoring and rapid audit reporting with FairWarning

Halifax Regional Health System cuts audit reporting to 15 minutes with FairWarning

Halifax Regional Health System, a rural hospital, faced a fragmented and manual privacy auditing process after relying on McKesson STAR Audit for 17 years. Their reactive approach, which only investigated access after complaints, left them unable to proactively detect privacy breaches or meet regulatory demands. To address this, they turned to the patient privacy monitoring solutions from FairWarning.

By implementing FairWarning, Halifax centralized its audit data with support from McKesson Services. This enabled proactive, automated monitoring with minimal internal effort, including daily alerts and randomized audits. The solution from FairWarning significantly reduced snooping incidents, streamlined disciplinary workflows, and cut report turnaround time from days or weeks to just about 15 minutes, positioning the hospital to meet HIPAA and HITECH obligations.

Halifax Regional Health System