The advent of telemedicine and the technological advancement in health service delivery worldwide has seen rapid and wholesome automation of health delivery systems. However, the health sector is a unique area with series of regulations, standards and guidelines that require strict adherence.

In fact, the health sector hold highly classified information that need to be protected and retained for a considerable length of time due to its confidential and relevant nature. The rapid automation of health systems in most hospitals and clinics in Ghana has been helpful not only in reduction in congestion but making patient record readily available and accessible to various health workers for better health service delivery.

However, risks with the use of information technology has been and old age issue. Additionally, specific to the health sector is the regulatory compliance, data loss and confidentiality issues. Hence any health delivery system require strict adherence to legal and regulatory requirement, confidentiality, integrity, reliability and availability of the information and IT resources. Meeting these requirements call for constant auditing of IT and compliance systems to identify possible risk, threat and vulnerabilities for adequate measures to be put in place to avoid disaster in the near future which may cause severe damage and loss of life with serious consequences for the health facility or hamper smooth operation of health service delivery.

DMTC is here to partner with you to keep your system up and running, secure and compliance at affordable cost.