In October 2003, Holland Community Hospital in Holland, Michigan engaged the services of Negley, Ott & Associates, Inc. (NOA) to perform a comprehensive information security assessment for purposes of mitigating risks and regulatory compliance. Based on the need to have a compressive assessment involving both policy / procedure as well as technical considerations addressed, NOA engaged the services of Amsador, LTD. This alliance was arranged between NOA and Amsador, LTD in order to augment NOA’s best-demonstrated practices consulting services with extensive expertise in business continuity planning. NOA’s Rod Walker and Amsador LTD’s Gerry Printz conducted an on-site assessment of six systems plus operational areas in addition to the information systems department as part of the assessment. The assessment included clinical systems, financial systems, human resource systems, patient accounting systems, credentialing systems and quality management systems, which represent a very large scope of systems requiring an extensive analysis. As part of the assessment, audits were performed of systems, operational area practices and policies/procedures in order to conduct a comprehensive analysis of strengths and weaknesses.

Holland Community Hospital has achieved a very advanced stage of information technologies within their operational areas and this can be seen with their extensive use of the Misys CPR® and Misys CPOE® (aka: Per-Se Technologies, Inc. Patient1®) system which is an integrated care delivery system. Maintaining a best-demonstrated practices approach with all systems is essential to protecting patient information and is a primary reason for this assessment. Holland Community Hospital is commended for their progressive and serious approach to safeguarding protective healthcare information.

For more information on Holland Community Hospital, click here: http://www.hoho.org

For more information on Negley, Ott & Associates, Inc., click here: http://www.noac.com.

AMSADOR, Ltd has been in business since February 1995. Their only business is “Information Management”, specifically, Business Continuity Planning and Information Security. All of AMSADOR’s consultants are certified in areas such as Business Continuity Planning, Information Security and Information Systems Auditing. AMSADOR has developed over 100 Business Continuity Plans internationally for a wide variety of firms in all industries including healthcare, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications and government. AMSADOR has also conducted over 50 audits designed to identify and correct deficiencies in their client’s managing of information.

For more information, visit http://www.amsador.com.