Why is HITRUST Certification Important for the Healthcare Industry?

Publisher: The Insight Partners

HITRUST is the most dynamic security standard offering certifications. It is the non-profit organization that helps in creating and maintains the Common Security Framework (CSF). It was created for addressing the multitude of security, privacy as well as regulatory challenges being faced by the organizations. By the means of including federal as well as state regulations, standards & frameworks, along with incorporating a risk-based methodology, the HITRUST CSF enables the organizations in coping up with these challenges via wide-ranging & flexible framework of strict and scalable safety controls.

Moreover, HITRUST CSF Certified status validates that the organization’s Cloud Services Division has met all the key regulations along with industry-specific necessities and is suitably managing risk. For instance eFax corporate, an enterprise-grade cloud-fax solution across the world offering Digital Cloud-Fax Technology (DCFT) to clients, looking for an internet-based alternate against the traditional paper-based fax machines, has successfully earned certified status for information security by HITRUST. The company assists in automating their client’s business processes & workflow, delivering a strong return on investment, enhancing the productivity of worker as well as encouraging interoperability objectives for secure document exchange.

“The HITRUST CSF has become the information protection framework for the health care industry, and the CSF Assurance program is bringing a new level of effectiveness and efficiency to third-party assurance,” said Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST. “The HITRUST CSF Certification is now the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard PHI are measured against with regards to information protection.”

Any company that creates, accesses, stores, or exchanges personal health information must be compliant with the HITRUST Common Security Framework. This includes companies and organizations such as hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacies, healthcare vendors and physician offices.

In a recent research it was discovered that more than 84 per cent of health strategies, organizations & business associates utilize the CSF, creating it the most widely adopted framework for security across the healthcare industry. The HITRUST CSF acts as the roadmap for almost all kinds of risk-management procedures, making them repeatable so the whole process can be done correctly each & every time.