ADHICS Compliance Audit
Full ADHICS readiness for Abu Dhabi healthcare providers, payers and Malaffi participants.
End-to-end ADHICS (Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security) Standard audit — Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DoH) controls across governance, asset management, HR, communications, third-party, incident response and health-information exchange. Designed for hospitals, clinics, insurers, labs, pharmacies and HealthTech integrators connected to Malaffi.
- ADHICS Standard (latest published version, Department of Health Abu Dhabi)
- DoH licensing standards and circulars
- Malaffi Health Information Exchange security requirements
- UAE Federal PDPL (Decree-Law 45 of 2021)
- UAE Information Assurance Standards
- ISO 27001:2022 (mapped)
- HIPAA Security Rule (mapped for multinational operators)
Compliance is leverage, not paperwork.
ADHICS is the Department of Health Abu Dhabi's mandatory information and cyber-security standard for all licensed healthcare entities in the emirate. Non-compliance can trigger licence-condition action, exclusion from the Malaffi health-information exchange and reputational risk in a sector where DoH publishes facility ratings. Macksofy's ADHICS audit walks the control families end-to-end with the evidence DoH inspectors actually sample — control statements, technical artefacts and a submission pack mapped to the standard.
- Hospitals, clinics and day-surgery centres licensed by DoH
- Diagnostic labs, imaging centres and pharmacies in Abu Dhabi
- Health insurance / TPA entities operating in the emirate
- Malaffi-connected providers and HealthTech integrators
- Telemedicine and digital-health platforms serving Abu Dhabi residents
- Suppliers handling protected health information for DoH-licensed entities
Aligned to the regulations that matter.
How we run a ADHICS engagement.
Interactive walkthrough — every phase clickable, every activity documented, every artefact regulator-ready.
1 · Scoping + applicability
- DoH licence-category mapping
- Malaffi-connectivity scoping
- PHI flow + crown-jewel identification
Everything you need to satisfy auditors.
- ADHICS applicability + scoping memo
- Control-by-control compliance register
- PHI data-flow + Malaffi-integration diagram
- Medical-device / IoMT inventory + risk register
- Third-party + supplier risk pack
- PHI breach notification SOP
- DoH submission pack + inspector Q&A deck
ADHICS audit + Malaffi-integration security review
Outcome: Closed all priority-1 gaps before annual DoH inspection; Malaffi integration cleared without remediation conditions
ADHICS + ISO 27001 unified program
Outcome: Single ISMS satisfied both DoH and ISO assessors; audit effort cut by an estimated 35% in year two
The shape of a ADHICS engagement.
Every number below is grounded in how Macksofy actually runs the engagement — not aspirational marketing copy.
What we actually examine.
Each pillar is a distinct workstream inside the engagement — scoped, evidenced, and signed off independently before the audit pack is assembled.
- Governance & policy3 pts
- PHI inventory & classification3 pts
- Access control & cryptography3 pts
- Medical device & IoMT security3 pts
- Third-party & Malaffi integration3 pts
- Incident response & submission3 pts
Board-down accountability for PHI with DoH-aligned policy library.
- Information-security policy currency
- CISO / security-officer charter
- Risk-register + board reporting cadence
ADHICS audits live or die on completeness of the PHI inventory.
- PHI discovery across EMR, PACS, lab + billing
- Information classification + handling rules
- Crown-jewel + Malaffi-asset map
Clinical workflows, identity and PHI encryption walked end-to-end.
- Role-based access in EMR + clinical apps
- MFA + privileged-access for admins
- Encryption-at-rest + in-transit on PHI
The control set most healthcare audits skip — and where DoH increasingly focuses.
- Connected-device inventory + patching
- Network segmentation for IoMT
- Vendor-managed device risk register
Suppliers and HIE connectivity tested against ADHICS supplier controls.
- Supplier risk + contract clause review
- Malaffi integration security testing
- Cloud + outsourcing due diligence
DoH-format submission pack and a tested PHI breach playbook.
- PHI breach detection + escalation
- Tabletop drill (clinical + technical)
- DoH submission pack + inspector deck
From kick-off to regulator-ready report.
The horizontal flow below shows the typical week-by-week shape of a ADHICS engagement. Click any station for detail in the methodology section above.
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