COMPLIANCE BRIEF
Securing Patient Trust in Progressive Care
Kiteworks Supports Healthcare’s ADHICS Compliance
The Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard (ADHICS) was established in 2019 to strengthen privacy and security in healthcare. Obtaining ADHICS certification shows a healthcare facility’s commitment to properly managing sensitive patient data. The core requirements span 11 domains including access controls, communications security, operations management, and health information protection. The requirements are comprehensive and include strict physical controls that must restrict entry to areas with health data, while patient information shared electronically requires encryption. Extensive identity and access controls are mandated with role-based permissions and routine revalidation. Multi-factor authentication is required for all administrative system access. Complying with these baseline provisions reduces risks from unauthorized data usage or modification. Implementing the controls signals a facility prioritizes patient confidentiality rights, upholding public trust in healthcare while enabling digital advancements like health information exchanges. Beyond bolstering data protections, the Standard improves accountability, system reliability, and reduces business uncertainties. While fulfilling the baseline technical and policy demands requires initial investments, noncompliance poses greater dangers regarding reputational damage, legal liabilities, and operations continuity. Therefore, Abu Dhabi healthcare providers see conforming since 2020 as vital for delivering secure, ethical care. Kiteworks supports healthcare facilities in their work to remain compliant. Here’s how:
Solution Highlights
- Stringent access governance
- Robust audit logs
- Remote wipe
- Double encryption
- Anomaly alerts
Managing Human Resources Security Through Access Governance and Activity Monitoring
Kiteworks aligns robustly with ADHICS directives around managing personnel as indispensable yet vulnerable assets through capabilities that facilitate minimized insider threats. Granular access controls allow appropriately scoping permission assignments, while activity monitoring provides oversight into compliance. Together these facilitate stringent data access management, security policy awareness reinforcement, and breach investigation support. Custom login banners further mandate acceptance of responsibilities, automatically warning administrators on unsafe configurations as well to lessen errors and negligence. By embedding vigilant access governance, transparency, and accountability tools, Kiteworks aids the risk mitigation and extensive activity controls vital for upholding healthcare data protections amidst inevitable exposure opportunities from human involvement. Ultimately Kiteworks provides the layered technical safeguards required when securing the human domain alongside digital assets given the inherent vulnerabilities of personnel necessitating ingrained security across access, awareness, and accountability policies.
Asset Management With Protective Controls
Kiteworks provides robust access governance, activity monitoring, and data protection tools that facilitate healthcare organizations in fulfilling asset management obligations. Capabilities like granular permissions, tamper-proof logging, remote wipe, and custom forms empower appropriate access control, classification, handling, and disposal across various asset types per mandates. By enabling transparency into asset usage while securing sensitive data from compromise, Kiteworks assists maintaining inventories, managing risk exposures, and upholding custodianship duties around digital and physical items supporting care delivery. Kiteworks provides the layered technical safeguards required for embedding security across the entire asset life cycle in alignment with standardized frameworks for categorization, communication, retention, and destruction.
Sustaining Healthcare Delivery Through Integrated Safeguards
Kiteworks robustly addresses numerous additional ADHICS requirements of Environmental Security, Access Control, Operations Management, Communications, Health Information Security, Third Party Security, Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Maintenance, Information Security Incident Management, and Information Systems Continuity Management through integrated access governance, systemic hardening, resilience provisions, and protective capacities. Kiteworks delivers the rigorous systemic protections required when securing facilities, medical devices, paper records, and other environments storing sensitive data from compromise through assumptions of breach and resilient threat containment capacities. Aligned tools uphold integrity, availability, and emergency response preparedness. Granular controls, multi-factor authentication, segmentation, logging, and encryption facilitate access management, oversight visibility, layered infrastructure defenses, and secure external integrations as mandated. Rigorous DevSecOps practices shift security left, enabling rapid response to exploits, while redundancy and flexible deployment models bolster availability. Extensive monitoring and alerting capacities align with incident-handling requirements as well by covering activity trails, gathering forensic evidence, and enabling agile quarantines. Response orchestration features further uphold continuity planning obligation around sustaining operations through inevitable disruptions. Together these access, operational, and environmental safeguards uphold security and availability objectives throughout ongoing maintenance, communications oversight, patient privacy preservation, third-party interactions, and adverse event response efforts. Kiteworks’ governance tools provide the layered technical assurances needed when securing progressive care delivery against compromise. Integrated capacities enable compliance across the range of ADHICS directives related to appropriately utilizing data, defending systems, assuming breach, and sustaining patient trust.
Healthcare providers in Abu Dhabi continue embracing technology and require robust frameworks securing these modernizations without compromise. From access constraints and encryption mandates to resilient continuity provisions and third-party governance, ADHICS obligations are extensive yet vital. Kiteworks’ integrated capabilities facilitate meeting numerous directives through vigilant access governance, systemic hardening, and protective capacities. Granular controls, activity monitoring, layered infrastructure defenses, and more assist compliance across managing indispensable yet vulnerable personnel, appropriately handling assets, sustaining environments, governing external ties, and preparing for inevitable incidents. With patient trust and consent as guiding principles, Kiteworks provides indispensable tools for the healthcare industry’s continual ADHICS alignment. Compliance is not a point-in-time exercise but rather an ethical imperative as environments and threats evolve. By integrating and automating protections across domains, Kiteworks sustains delivery integrity.