Eastwall Azure Healthcare Compliance Engagement

Navigating compliance and audit ecosystems requires robust processes, readily available documentation, and the ability to fetch information & data from systems subject to compliance standards. Does your organization have all the necessary documentation available and understand how being cloud-enabled impacts audit readiness?

Eastwall is a Microsoft Partner with decades of industry-relevant experience in healthcare, supporting software vendors and payers/providers in meeting their obligations for audit and compliance. Whether you are seeking 510k approval on a medical device or need to attest your software meets Title 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, our team has the depth of healthcare industry experience and technology acumen to guide your compliance journey. We will help you build your robust healthcare solution on Azure with all compliance and regulatory requirements in mind from day one, whether that solution leverages virtual machines or cloud-native platform services.

Eastwall helps your organization leverage the Azure cloud and Microsoft’s surrounding services to build your compliant solution. Independent third-party compliance reports attest to the effectiveness of Microsoft controls and can be leveraged in the audit process for your organization. Build robust internal audit process documentation on applications & solutions developed in-house to supplement cloud-provided compliance.

Eastwall's professional services engagement helps you leverage Azure, whether you are getting start for the first time extending your existing Azure footprint. In an engagement that typically lasts six weeks, our team of highly certified Microsoft Azure Architects and a Principal Healthcare Consultant will work with you to complete activities such as:

• Conduct collaborative workshops to review current compliance & audit requirements, Azure cloud technology services ecosystem and capabilities of Microsoft’s Azure cloud ecosystem. Review design blueprints, address requirements & identify gaps and future hurdles.

• Leverage Eastwall & Microsoft’s library of Azure artifacts, process templates and best-practices to outline current technology gaps & forward-looking remediation plans.

• Build a robust Azure architecture with documented configuration outlines that directly correlate to compliance functional requirements.

• Tailor current Azure identity & services with role-based access controls and authentication models to an Azure cloud model built for nonrepudiation & compliance with relevant governance policies.

• Understand, document & outline Azure solution integrations with internal and 3rd party software & components.

• Alter Azure architecture and technology components, then adjust the implementation to meet the compliance guidelines agreed upon between Eastwall & your organization.

• Provide visibility to on-demand audit readiness with Microsoft Azure Policy tools.

Engagement duration may be variable based on scope of assessment, team availability and outputs requested by your engagement team. Our technology team typically works with both your IT department as well as any quality/regulatory staff to ensure the solution meets expected compliance and policy obligations. Please note that Eastwall is not a compliance or certification authority, and it is the responsibility of you, the customer, to ensure regulatory compliance of the solutions designed in partnership with Eastwall during your engagement. These statements and material herein have not been endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any other governing body. With a detailed technical assessment & go-forward plan, implemented solution, and a backlog of continued improvements, Eastwall helps leading organizations fortify their cloud approach brick by brick.