Additionally, working with Clinical Safety Consultants at ETHOS who provided third party assessment, PDH reached DCB 0129 compliance standard which is designed to promote and ensure the effective application of clinical risk management. It is the UK’s mandatory safety standard for health IT systems and apps and is governed by NHS Digital, with compliance mandatory under the Health and Social care Act 2012. The standard is strictly about safety, ensuring that the system does not cause patient harm, and underpins all national healthcare initiatives.
Priority Digital Health’s achievement of DCB compliance was followed shortly after with the news of its ISO 27001 accreditation; the internationally recognised information security management certificate issued by the British Standards Institution.
The accreditation process for ISO 27001 involved detailed inspections and testing of the security systems and controls which have been implemented for safe information management. This involved scoping what information needed to be protected within the company’s information security management system and identifying any threats to that information. Topics covered included General Data Protection Regulation and potential security threats such as cybercrime, personal data breaches and theft.
“Clinical risk management, and the systems we have in place to protect our patients and their information, is vitally important to us. We are continually reviewing and refining the way we do this; not only for today, but also for the post-Covid-19 future”
