MetricStream, a provider of governance, risk and compliance solutions, announced that not-for-profit healthcare provider Lancaster General Health has chosen MetricStream Policy Management Solution to strengthen its compliance program.

MetricStream will enable the healthcare provider to consolidate and organize enterprise-wide policies and procedures on a centralized GRC Platform for greater efficiency in policy management, tracking, collaboration and accountability.

With MetricStream's Policy Management solution, LG Health will "gain significant efficiencies in our policy lifecycle management process, and enhance the way we organize and implement policies across the enterprise," said Margaret Costella, LG Health's vice president and deputy general counsel. "The solution's integrated approach based on a GRC Platform, as well as its intuitive tools for collaboration, policy tracking, training, and mapping policies to compliance requirements, led us to select MetricStream as our solution provider."

MetricStream Policy Management solution will help LG Health effectively meet regulatory requirements by enabling a GRC-based approach to policy management that drives sustainable compliance. The solution integrates enterprise-wide policies on a single, centralized platform, and streamlines the complete policy management lifecycle, thus ensuring consistency in the way policies are created, maintained and understood.

Robust audit trails, dashboards and reports enhance accountability by providing real-time insights into the creation and management of each policy. In addition, the solution enables aligning of policies and procedures to the changes in the regulatory, risk and corporate environment.