Hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities are continually tasked with cutting costs in ways that don’t diminish quality care. Managed Print Services is a strategy for doing just that. It supports the safety and security of patients, while helping organizations save money. A streamlined, efficient and well-supported infrastructure of technology is crucial, and Managed Print Services offer many benefits to the healthcare industry.
PATIENT PRIVACY
Every industry prints some type of secure information. For the healthcare industry, security policies and practices are essential. HIPAA laws mandating the dissemination of information in healthcare can be more easily met with a Managed Print Services solution offering protection of sensitive materials and helping to protect a patient’s right to privacy. Healthcare settings can manage their print security by installing appropriate software.
a secure printing software, which allows organizations to ensure patient information remains private. When an employee prints a document from their computer, the printer can hold the data in its queue and won’t print the document until that employee is at the printer and swipes or enters an ID to release the job. This helps healthcare organizations ensure printed confidential and sensitive documents end up in the proper hands.
PRINT SECURITY
- Remove end-of-support devices.
- Keep firmware up to date.
- Enforce consistent configuration and hardening standards across the fleet.
Especially for the healthcare industry, choosing a print partner that can diagnose your current risks, create action plans for addressing them, and has the infrastructure to grow your security posture throughout the lifecycle of your services is important.
Print devices are fully functional computers that are often overlooked from organization security programming and controls. With Marco, you have instant access to Print Security Advisory services, unique per-customer administrative passwords on every device, as well as secure decommission services at no additional cost. In addition, clients Marco’s newest security service, Print Defense, brings full, firmware management to our toolset.
MEDICAL RECORDS, HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES
The organization and management of medical records also can be streamlined. Managed Print Services play a critical role within organizations that print for these reasons:
- Communication with patients related to new policies, requirements and benefits.
- Ongoing correspondence with patients and third-party entities regarding claims processing and disputes.
- Legal documentation associated with litigated benefits and claim disputes.
- Internal dissemination of updated policies, procedures and other processes for documentation.
