News
Track and protect flow of sensitive data through healthcare
organisations
25 June 2009
System C has launched IGFlow, a product that allows healthcare
providers to ensure they are in control of the flow of sensitive
personal information and patient health records.
IGFlow allows staff to map the flows of ‘person identifiable data’
(PID) around their own organisation and across to other organisations.
It covers email traffic, letters, faxes, CDs tapes, x-rays, and other
media. The product includes an automatic risk calculator that analyses
and assesses the risk attached to each flow.
NHS trusts across Kent have already chosen to implement IGFlow.
Morfydd Williams, Programme Director at Kent and Medway Programme
Office, praised the product for its ease of use and for the fact that it
runs on a modern .NET platform.
“It will allow our trusts to make accessible to all staff the
approved methods of sending and receiving personal information as well
as an easy method for the Caldicott Guardians to review and update
information flows”, she said.
In the wake of several high-profile national incidents, NHS chief
executive David Nicholson has instructed all trust chief executives to
review and tighten their information governance and data transfer
arrangements.
“This tool will allow staff to access the information they need in
order to send patient identifiable data safely by using trust approved
information flows”, Ms Williams explained.
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