Wake Radiology UNC REX Healthcare Selects Veriphyr to Protect Patient Data Privacy

One of North Carolina’s Largest Outpatient Imaging Providers Uses
Analytics Service to Detect Inappropriate Access to Medical Records

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#HIPPA—Veriphyr, a leader in healthcare
patient data privacy monitoring, announced today that Wake Radiology UNC
REX Healthcare (WakeRad REX) has selected its service to detect and
deter inappropriate access to patient medical records, the first time it
occurs, across all of their 14 locations. With Veriphyr, WakeRad REX can
document its compliance with HIPAA/HITECH regulations that mandate its
staff only access patient data when necessary to perform their job
responsibilities.

WakeRad REX selected Veriphyr after a comprehensive evaluation of
leading patient data privacy monitoring solutions.

“We chose Veriphyr because it provides the precise level of detail we
need, without false positives, on patient data access activity and
doesn’t impact our existing systems. This service also has a rapid,
no-cost setup and doesn’t require ongoing intervention or support from
our clinical or IT staff,” said Matt Dewey, Chief Information Officer
for WakeRad REX. “With Veriphyr in place, our privacy officer receives
reports that demonstrate our compliance with data privacy guidelines and
can generate ad hoc reports through Veriphyr’s online portal.”

Veriphyr’s proactive patient privacy monitoring uses Structural
Analytics™ to automatically understand each organization’s unique set of
job responsibilities, including which workers are associated with which
responsibilities. Then, it can automatically determine when a worker
moves from one set of job responsibilities to another. By monitoring
every worker’s access to patient data, Veriphyr accurately identifies
instances when the type or volume of activity is outside of an
individual’s job responsibilities and poses a potential privacy
violation. Veriphyr proactively monitors all access to patient data by
employees and non-employees in electronic health records (EHR) systems
as well as other clinical or business applications.

“WakeRad REX, like every healthcare provider, was struggling to comply
with stringent patient privacy mandates across a massive and constantly
growing data set,“ said Alan Norquist, CEO and Founder of Veriphyr.
“Veriphyr’s ability to detect and report on worker violations of
organizational privacy and impermissible use policies, even if it occurs
only once, proved to be a must-have technology for the practice.”

About Veriphyr
Veriphyr uses advanced data analytics to
proactively detect and report impermissible use of patient data by
employees, contractors and anyone with access to clinical or business
applications. The Veriphyr HIPAA patient privacy monitoring solution
accurately detects and reports on inappropriate healthcare worker access
to patient data without a valid reason by automatically determining the
job responsibilities of each worker based solely on the organization’s
activity data. Used by organizations ranging from 300 to 60,000 workers,
Veriphyr monitors millions of access events from clinical and business
applications. It delivers the information healthcare organizations need,
when they need it, to maintain regulatory compliance and ensure patient
data confidentiality. For more information, visit Veriphyr.com.

Contacts

Marc Gendron
Marc Gendron Public Relations for Veriphyr
781-237-0341
marc@mgpr.net