Last year it became clear again how important these certificates are for SmartMed's safe and high quality medication management system. In addition to going live at several hospitals and the acquisition of CareSoft, the SmartMed applications are developing into chain solutions, in which the exchange of medication data occupies an increasingly prominent place in the care chain.
What does the ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certification mean for SmartMed?
Alfred Godeke, founder and CEO of SmartMed, explains: "SmartMed is entering the medication field. This means that the company develops medication software for hospitals, pharmacies, care institutions and the patient. Data transfer between care providers and patients has to take place in a careful, safe way, according to the standards developed for that purpose".
The best test for SmartMed to prove that they organize this in a safe way is the annual certification for ISO 27001 and NEN 7510. The NEN 7510 certificate is increasingly being set as a precondition for suppliers in the care chain. This guarantees safe storage and distribution of patient-sensitive data.
Why certification?
Information security is becoming increasingly important in Europe, especially in the field of information management in healthcare. With this, the importance of the internationally recognized standard for information security is also increasing.
"The audit was very positive and constructive. SmartMed is qualified with the maximum degree of control. Despite the lack of relevant points of improvement SmartMed continues on the path it has taken to give priority to security in all areas of the organization", says Ywe te Kate, Security Manager at SmartMed. SmartMed uses Security by Design techniques, which makes information security an integral part of the software. This is one of the starting points of ISO 27001 to which a lot of attention was paid during the audit.
SmartMed offers safe medication monitoring
At SmartMed, secure medication monitoring from the patient's perspective is in good hands. Wherever the patient is in the 'care chain', the SmartMed medication management application always directly disposes of the AMO (Current Medication Overview) of the patient. Because SmartMed has been developed multimedially, SmartMed offers the patient the possibility to access all available medication information on any information medium, regardless of time or place. SmartMed guarantees that in the year 2020, patients will be able to view their AMO always and everywhere in an ultra-secure manner.
