Privacy & Security in Healthcare

Person or Entity Authentication

When developing healthcare software, it’s important to implement authentication solutions that meet industry standards and ensure security goals. Our engineers are aware of software security and only implement leading and proven solutions that allow only authorized users to access medical information.

Features we usually implement:

• Authentication through login and password
• Multi-factors authentication
• Touch ID or Face ID authentication

Authorization and Access Control

Modern healthcare solutions are large software systems that manage patient medical data with plenty of users accessing health information. In healthcare software systems, medical professionals only have access to the information they need to perform their job duties effectively. Access authorization is usually based on several factors, such as authority, responsibility and job competence.

• User-based access control
• Role-based access control
• Management role and group scope
• Authorization via token (OAuth)

Secure Storage and Transmission Medical Data

With sensitive patient data, privacy is one of the key factors between a positive and negative decision to use a particular software solution. Healthcare software systems that don’t guarantee a safe store and transmission of patient’s medical data become useless. In our solutions, we implement various data encryption algorithms as the most effective way to protect sensitive data, regardless of whether it’s at rest, in transit, or traversing multiple network connections. This keeps sensitive patient data secure and protected against unauthorized access.

Features we usually implement:

• Database encryption/decryption
• Secure communication channels
• Encrypted DB in the mobile app (SQLCipher)
• A secure connection between a server and a client (SSL security)

Data Backup and Disaster Recovery

Today, data security is not even a matter of discussion. In a dynamic world, healthcare software solutions must ensure that all data can be backed up and restored. A server crash or database corruption will cause significant data loss, even if you manage to recover data from yesterday’s backup. In the software solutions we develop, all data is timely backed up and can be recovered at any time. Each backup has multiple reserved copies that are stored in a secure environment in different locations. This approach helps prevent data loss in the case when something unpredictable happens with data in one physical location.

• Development of  backup and recovery functionality/scripts
• Automated disaster recovery set-up
• Files and database replication
• AWS-based disaster recovery

Compliance

At Romexsoft, we are dedicated to the integrity and protection of patient medical data. We assist healthcare companies in designing and building HIPAA-compliant on-premises and AWS cloud-based software solutions that comply with regulatory guidelines. These software solutions help healthcare providers of all sizes avoid the costs incurred by failing to adhere to compliance guidelines and reduce the costs required to maintain compliance.