Henry Ford was once quoted saying “if you asked customers what they wanted, they’d say “faster horses.” This famous quote is often used to argue that visionary leaders such as Ford could see the innovation possible by looking into the distant future - things that others cannot see in the near term. Traditionally, customers are not viewed as visionaries since they largely focus on near-term product features due to current pain points and challenges. At Protenus, our customers are visionaries in healthcare privacy and security, innovating right alongside our team to better protect patient data and create a culture of privacy and compliance.

Our mission at Protenus is to advance the science of healthcare by bringing together creative and skilled individuals who are passionate about the security, usability, and applicability of health data. As this information becomes more voluminous, comprehensive, and, as a consequence, more vulnerable, we are building scalable, insightful solutions that address critical issues preventing the efficient, safe, and effective delivery of patient care.

Innovation is often a dirty word for healthcare compliance and privacy departments. Even still, if privacy professionals become open to innovative thoughts, strategies, and processes, it may help them to “clean-up” their programs and improve the efficacy of their privacy initiatives. But how do we weave innovation into the daily lives of our privacy and compliance teams? This challenge is particularly acute in healthcare, which is rife with regulations and laws that often conflict with and, in the words of many caregivers, get in the way of patient care. Here are three steps to effectively innovate in healthcare privacy and compliance in order to increase team efficiency and ensure patient trust.

Our mission at Protenus is to advance the science of healthcare by bringing together creative and skilled individuals who are passionate about the security, usability, and applicability of health data. As this information becomes more voluminous, comprehensive, and, as a consequence, more vulnerable, we are building scalable, insightful solutions that address critical issues preventing the efficient, safe, and effective delivery of patient care.

It’s no secret that I am grateful to work at Protenus. So when I’m asked to describe the culture here, a lot of words come to mind: transparency, collaboration, humility and respect. But the one that sticks out most notably is trust. Trust is at the core of everything we do, from the platform we engineer to the company culture we build. This culture is unique and is capturing the attention of the healthcare industry, being named one of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare and selected as a “2018 Best Places to Work” by the Baltimore Business Journal.