Prime Healthcare Services Selects FairWarning® to Protect Patients’ Privacy

MEDITECH customers representing over 200 hospitals and 750 clinics are protecting the privacy of patients, and meeting privacy and security regulatory compliance with FairWarning^®

CLEARWATER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FairWarning, Inc., the inventor and world’s leading supplier of patient privacy monitoring solutions for electronic health records (EHRs), today announced that Prime Healthcare Services, based in Ontario, California, has selected FairWarning^® Patient Privacy Monitoring to conduct proactive privacy auditing for MEDITECH’s Client Server and Magic as well as other healthcare applications across their enterprise.

Prime Healthcare Services joins a growing list of MEDITECH users of all sizes who are proactively leveraging FairWarning^® patient privacy monitoring to comply with US Federal regulatory mandates, protect patient privacy and improve performance for their organizations faster, predictably and affordably.

Established in 2001, Prime Healthcare Services has 20 acute care hospitals, 2,549 beds, and serves communities in California, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Texas. Prime Healthcare is nationally recognized as a leader in care and innovation, with eight hospitals recognized in 2012 as "Top Performers on Key Quality Measures" by The Joint Commission. Prime Healthcare was also recognized as a “Top 15 Health System” in the nation in 2012 and in 2009.

“FairWarning^® proved they are the leader in patient privacy monitoring solutions for MEDITECH-based health systems, with best-in-class solutions. Prime Healthcare Services is a nationally recognized leader in patient care and we are committed to being a leader in patient privacy so that our patients have complete trust that the information they share with our health system is secure and private,” said Sreekant Gotti, Chief Information Officer, Prime Healthcare Services.

FairWarning^® is a member of the Medical Users Software Exchange (MUSE) community, bringing wide-spread support and resources to customers facing increased pressures from mounting regulations and audits. Additionally, MEDITECH’s Client Server 5.6, Magic 5.6 and 6.0 application versions are certified in the FairWarning^® Ready for Healthcare Applications program, designed to fundamentally reduce the cost and complexity of wide-scale patient privacy auditing. By having MEDITECH applications as part of the FairWarning^® Ready program, MEDITECH users gain tremendous support for their unique needs, and resources to ease the burdens of compliance and improve their ability to protect their patients’ privacy.

About FairWarning, Inc.

FairWarning^® invented and is the global leader in Patient Privacy Monitoring solutions which guard against abuse of patient information in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) enabling care providers to confidently connect physicians, clinics, patients and affiliates. FairWarning^® Patient Privacy Monitoring solutions are compatible with every major EHR and 185 applications used in healthcare including Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, GE, McKesson, MEDITECH, Siemens, and many others. Customers consider FairWarning^® solutions essential for compliance with healthcare privacy regulations such as ARRA HITECH privacy and meaningful use criteria, HIPAA, EU Data Protection, UK Freedom of Information Act, California SB 541 and AB 211, Texas HB 300, Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and Canadian provincial healthcare privacy law. For more information on FairWarning^®, please visit www.FairWarning.com or email [e-mail].