The Guard now delivers full-scope healthcare compliance management–including HIPAA, OSHA Medical and Dental, and SOC 2 – as well as support for Custom Programs.

Included in this release:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEW! Programs Module
• NEW! Policy & Procedures Module
• NEW! Standards Module

NEW! Programs Module

The all new Programs Module is your one-stop shop for scalable, efficient, and effective project organization and initiative management across all of your healthcare compliance programs.

• Programs Module Features & Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Compliance Management: Achieve compliance across multiple different areas concurrently. 

    • The Guard offers 500+ pre-mapped program controls across Data Security, Breach, Physical Safeguards, Privacy, and Workplace Safety that help you manage across multiple frameworks and standards. 
      
      

  • Custom Program Support: Create and customize unique compliance programs that align precisely with your org’s operational and regulatory challenges. 

    • When you need to build and customize your own unique compliance program, The Guard is your solution. The Guard supports the creation and management of custom compliance programs tailored to your organization's specific requirements.
      
      

    • Speak to your Customer Success Specialist about your full healthcare compliance program needs so you can select the product tier that best fits your requirements.
      
      

  • Streamlined Safety, Privacy, Breach and Physical Controls: Address your critical compliance aspects while reducing the risk of breaches and legal liabilities. 

    • The Guard provides updated, robust controls and guidelines to meet safety, privacy, breach prevention, and physical security requirements. 
      
      

  • Automated Task Management: Ensure compliance tasks never fall through the cracks.

    • Keep your healthcare compliance team on track and accountable with The Guard’s Task Management System, designed to streamline compliance tasks and deadlines to ensure they’re carried out on schedule. 
      
      

  • Robust Program Management: Save time and resources with scalable and effective project organization, initiative execution and ongoing program management. 

    • The Guard’s proactive and continuous program management ensures that compliance is maintained year-round, reducing the risk of non-compliance between assessments.
       

  • Powerful Control Scheduling: Guarantee adherence to regulatory requirements, patient safety, data security, and other critical aspects of your healthcare compliance program.

    • The Guard’s control review schedule ensures that these controls are monitored and re-assessed consistently across your compliance program.
      
      

  • Simplified Risk Scoring: Identify, prioritize, and mitigate compliance risks effectively. 

    • The Guard highlights what controls need highest prioritization to protect your organization. 
      
      

  • Targeted Analytics and Progress Tracking: Gain quick insights into what matters most to your compliance programs when monitoring multiple comprehensive initiatives.

    • The Guard is your key to managing multiple, comprehensive compliance initiatives. It facilitates data-driven decision-making, enables performance evaluation, identifies trends and weaknesses, supports resource allocation, ensures regulatory alignment, and enhances audit preparedness. 
      
      

  • Mission-critical Reporting: Reporting for all of your compliance efforts at your fingertips. 

    • Demonstrate progress of your compliance efforts and maturity milestones while effectively documenting program-related activities.
      
      

  • Complete Audit Logging and History: Verify actions and events, and create accountability across organizational compliance programs. 

    • With The Guard, you can confirm compliance activities, enforce policies, monitor security, detect and respond to incidents, and support an auditing process.

NEW! Policy & Procedures Module

Our all new Policy & Procedures Module provides powerful, yet simple, policy creation and organization-wide dissemination. Now you can focus on building your business while The Guard ensures that you meet and advance your healthcare compliance with regulatory standards, governance, and risk management.

• Policies & Procedures Module Features & Benefits:
  • Policy Template Library: Forget creating burdensome policies from scratch. 
    • The Guard provides 80+ pre-built policies and procedures templates across all controls and standards that you can customize and use for your organization.
      
      
  • Add & Manage Your Organization’s Policies: Manage all of your policies in one place. 
    • Manage your own policies and other HR-related documents in The Guard. Upload your own policies and procedures for ongoing compliance management. 
      
      
  • Real Time Employee Attestation Tracker: Get a comprehensive view of where your employees are in terms of compliance. 
    • From onboarding to ongoing refreshers, our policy attestation tracker assigns, streamlines, and tracks all employee efforts.
      
      
  • Complete Policy Audit and History Logging: Capture and store your comprehensive policy actions. 
    • Through robust tracking and recording, action history, compliance documents, policies, and user activities can be viewed so your team can confidently maintain transparency and assurance.

NEW! Standards Module

Our all new Standards Reporting Module offers seamless alignment with healthcare regulatory requirements and industry best practices while unlocking deep insights into how your organization's security and risk management strategies supercharge your compliance readiness.

• Standards Module Features & Benefits:
  • Real-Time Progress Dashboard: View live compliance insights and status updates on demand. 
    • Our new dashboard is your central interface for gauging your total compliance efforts in all supported standards, including HIPAA, SOC2, and OSHA.
      
      
  • Real-time Progress Toward Standards: Clearly see the progress you’re making on important standards and frameworks that your organization is working toward. 
    • See and understand your real-time progress toward meeting standards in any given policy while visualizing tasks that are needed to complete your healthcare compliance policies and further your compliance efforts.