Health Fidelity Achieves HITRUST CSF® Certification to Manage Risk, Improve Security Posture, and Meet Compliance Requirements
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Fidelity, Inc., a company that develops innovative risk adjustment technologies for the value-based care era, today announced that its Health Fidelity Cloud Application Suite and its supporting infrastructure has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the organization's aforementioned applications have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Health Fidelity in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST CSF helps organizations address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
"HITRUST CSF Certification is the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard PHI are measured against with regards to information protection," said Steve Whitehurst, Health Fidelity CEO. "Achieving this important designation reflects our commitment to a best-in-class technology infrastructure in which we uphold the rigorous quality and security standards expected of an organization that supports the top health plans and health systems in the US."
"HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment," said Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST. "We are pleased that Health Fidelity has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect their customers to have confidence in this designation."
To learn more about Health Fidelity's technology, visit www.healthfidelity.com.
About Health Fidelity
Health Fidelity delivers comprehensive, scalable risk adjustment solutions for risk-bearing entities that participate in Medicare Advantage, ACA, Medicaid, and Medicare ACO programs. With a combination of big data analytics and natural language processing (NLP) technology, Health Fidelity's modern prospective and retrospective risk adjustment approaches extract valuable insights from medical records, changing the way risk is identified, quantified, and managed for enhanced operational, clinical, and financial outcomes.
Health Fidelity is a registered trademark of Health Fidelity, Inc.
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