Thursday 25 August 2016

Delaware Health Information Network Pursues HITRUST Certification

The Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) recently announced a new effort to further secure the health information of its residents. Through a partnership with BluePrint Healthcare IT, the state health information exchange will pursue HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) certification using the company’s Common Security Framework (CSF).

“The sensitive nature of the information being shared makes its security paramount,” said Mark Jacobs, DHIN’s chief information officer, in a press release. “Completing HITRUST Certification will give practitioners, payers and consumers added assurance that DHIN takes every precaution to protect the clinical information that flows through the exchange.”

Seeking certification is an opportunity, explained Mark Ferrari, chief information security officer for BluePrint, to collaborate and share best practices and tools. HITRUST is a private company governed by an executive council composed of health-care organizations from around the nation, such as Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth Group. For the full article click here 



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