Case Study: Health First achieves 80% reduction in compliance resources and near-real-time proactive auditing with FairWarning

McKesson High-Availability Privacy Auditing with FairWarning

Health First, a not-for-profit health system with four hospitals, twelve clinics and over 800 beds serving Florida’s Space Coast, struggled with inefficient and fragmented EHR auditing. Limited search capabilities and inconsistent report formats made aggregation and proactive monitoring difficult, requiring 6–8 full-time staff and producing investigation results only after days or weeks.

Health First worked with McKesson to deploy FairWarning®, back-loading three years of data and implementing a high-availability configuration with redundant servers and EMC Centera storage. The solution delivered near real-time auditing, proactive alerts (VIP snooping, off‑shift access, self‑examination), centralized reporting and tracking — cutting required compliance FTEs to 1.5 (nearly 80% reduction), speeding incident response, enabling rapid random audits, and paving the way to expand monitoring across all clinical systems and integrate with their SIEM.

Health First

Chris Schmidt

Network Security, Systems Engineer