healthcare print management ebook

Healthy print management

Your guide to print management in healthcare: learn how to ensure you have compliant, secure data, every day.

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Your priority should be the health of your patients, not your printers

Healthcare workers are always-on, because the health and wellbeing of their patients is at stake. As a tech specialist, you need your infrastructure to allow them to focus on improving patient outcomes and experience without obstacles or delays.

Printing, scanning, and faxing should get the least attention in your technology stack because it should just work.

When it comes to patient care, technology can be a healthcare professional’s greatest support, but only if it consistently offers the flexibility, security, and accessibility needed.

In healthcare, paper-based workflows and physical documents still rule. A large healthcare organization may have thousands of multifunction printers and copiers spread across floors, buildings, cities, or even countries.

For IT teams, installing new printers and managing print queues can be complex and time consuming.

The increased use of cloud platforms and integrations pose additional cybersecurity challenges but, with limited visibility into the print environment, it’s difficult to monitor and protect against critically sensitive patient data falling into the wrong hands.

Then there are the costs and compatibility issues associated with integrating legacy systems like rostering, finance, inventory management, and ERP, with Electronic Medical Record applications and virtual solutions.

The regulatory environment of healthcare

For healthcare professionals, the highest priority is patient wellbeing, which goes beyond the physical. For sysadmins or IT specialists in the industry, a key requirement is to secure every patient’s Protected Health Information.

When it comes to managing critical patient records, organizations that provide or administer healthcare services face unique regulatory requirements:

HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outlines the lawful use and disclosure of PHI in the United States to ensure sensitive patient information is protected and secured. A key element of HIPAA compliance is the way that identifiable health information is created, received, maintained, and transmitted electronically.

GDPR

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) extends the rights of individuals over Personally Identifiable Data (PID). Health organizations are subject to stricter guidelines regarding the collection, processing, and storage of PID. Regardless of geography, GDPR has global implications for any organization which has reason to store information about anyone who is a citizen of a European Union country.

Ready for more?

It’s time to download the full ebook if you’re looking to learn how to:

Maintain compliance and high standards of security in a print environment
Operate across a complex and distributed system
Enable easy copying, printing, scanning, and faxing functions
Manage multiple printers and print queues in a high-pressure industry

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