Case Study: Detroit Medical Center achieves automated privacy breach detection and meaningful use compliance with FairWarning

The Detroit Medical Center’s Deployment of Privacy Breach Detection

Detroit Medical Center (DMC), the largest healthcare provider in southeast Michigan and a teaching hospital for Wayne State University, faced growing privacy and compliance challenges as it rolled out a broad-scale electronic health record (EHR) system across hospitals and clinics. With more than 15,000 employees accessing patient records, concerns about VIP and family-member snooping, manual, hit-or-miss audits, and new ARRA/HITECH meaningful use privacy requirements made automated privacy monitoring a top priority.

DMC selected FairWarning privacy breach detection for its extensive analytics and compatibility with Cerner Millennium, Sunquest and Siemens Invision, and completed implementation in under 90 days. Automated alerts and self-service reporting replaced labor-intensive random audits, enabling faster identification of incidents, targeted employee education and fewer violations over time, and supporting DMC’s meaningful use attestation.

Detroit Medical Center

Brenda Chambers

HIPAA Security Officer