Case Study: UPMC achieves streamlined patient privacy monitoring and ARRA-HITECH compliance with FairWarning

UPMC streamlines privacy monitoring across 40+ applications with FairWarning

UPMC, a major multi-hospital health system, faced a significant challenge in managing patient privacy compliance. Their investigations into potential privacy breaches were slow and resource-intensive because the necessary access logs were spread across many different clinical systems. This slow process created compliance risks, especially as regulations tightened under ARRA-HITECH. To address this, UPMC turned to FairWarning for its Patient Privacy Monitoring solution.

By implementing FairWarning's solution and integrating it with their identity management system, UPMC centralized and streamlined its privacy monitoring. The system aggregates logs from over 40 applications, which has drastically reduced investigation times. With around 300 weekly users, the FairWarning implementation has led to a measurable decrease in incidents and has significantly improved the health system's ARRA-HITECH and HIPAA compliance and reporting capabilities.

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