Healthcare Compliance Software

Healthcare compliance software differs from a general product because a health service carries two layers of obligation at once.

The first layer is the same as for any employer. Records, pay, safety, training, policies and incidents.

The second is accreditation and clinical governance. Standards assessed periodically, evidence gathered against each, and a survey process where somebody asks to see it.

What that means practically is that evidence has to be retrievable by standard rather than only by employee. An organisation that can produce training completion by person but cannot map it to the standard it satisfies will spend weeks assembling a submission by hand.

Ask whether obligations can be tagged and reported against by standard, rather than simply recorded against a person.

Safe Work Australia covers work health and safety duties. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s workplace compliance system and infection prevention and control course.