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)
What is ADHICS compliance?
ADHICS (Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard) sets mandatory security controls for healthcare entities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Macksofy audits hospitals, clinics, and health-tech against ADHICS, protecting patient data and clinical systems.
ADHICS 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
What your ADHICS engagement puts on the table.
- 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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