Healthcare Print Management eBook
Industry trends: Healthy print management
Your guide to print management in healthcare: learn how to ensure you have compliant, secure data, every day.
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Your priority should be the health of your patients, not your printers
Healthcare workers are always-on, ready to save lives in any situation kind of people. Working under intense conditions, they have to be able to adapt quickly to change – because the health and wellbeing of their patients is at stake.
As a tech specialist, you need your infrastructure to allow doctors and nurses to focus on improving patient outcomes and experience without any obstacles or delays. Printing, scanning, and faxing should get the least attention in your technology stack because it should just work.
When it comes to patient care, technology can be a healthcare professional’s greatest support system but only if it offers the flexibility, security, and accessibility they need. Otherwise it just gets in the way.
In the healthcare industry, paper-based workflows and physical documents still rule. A large healthcare organisation may have thousands of multifunction printers (MFPs) and copiers spread across multiple floors, buildings, cities, and even countries.
Doctors and nurses often need to move between locations - like different clinics, offices, specialist care centers, and campuses – making it challenging to quickly find the right printer. They might also be working on their own devices - including ThinOS Terminals, Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, mobiles or tablets.
For IT teams, installing new printers and managing print queues can be complex and time consuming. The increased use of cloud platforms and integrations poses additional cybersecurity challenges but, with limited visibility into the print environment, it’s difficult to monitor and protect against critically sensitive patient data falling into the wrong hands, either maliciously or purely by accident.
Then there are the costs and compatibility issues associated with integrating legacy systems like rostering, finance, inventory management, and ERP with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications and virtual solutions.
The regulatory environment of healthcare
For healthcare professionals, the highest priority has to be the wellbeing of their patients. That extends beyond physical health to securing their Protected Health Information (PHI) - whether it’s in a computer or on a prescription, chart, wristband or referral.
When it comes to managing critical patient records, organisations that provide or administer healthcare services face unique regulatory requirements:
Strike the right balance
So, how do you strike the right balance between remaining compliant while enabling easy printing, copying, scanning and faxing functions for your staff? End-to-end visibility is the first step in understanding what controls need to be in place to improve data security. In printing, features such as audit logs, automated reporting, digital signatures, and watermarking can all help bolster an organisation’s compliance standards.
What does healthy printing look like?
In a complex and distributed print environment, it’s critical for organisations to quickly manage their print-related needs from a central location while ensuring the privacy of patient information. Fortunately, print management software has the prescription.
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Ready for more?
It’s time to download the full eBook if you’re looking to learn how to:
Maintain compliance and high standards of security in a print environment.
Operate across a complex and distributed system.
Enable easy copying, printing, scanning, and faxing functions.
Manage multiple printers and print queues in a high-pressure industry.