HITRUST r2 Certification validates Surescripts’ commitment to data protection, security

ARLINGTON, Va.: #HealthIT--Surescripts®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, today announced that, across its platforms, its technology and data infrastructure systems have earned certified status by HITRUST for information security.

HITRUST r2 Certification demonstrates that Surescripts’ technology and data infrastructure has met demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Surescripts 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 Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

“We recognize that health intelligence sharing at scale requires powerful, secure infrastructure, and we are proud that Surescripts has achieved HITRUST r2 Certification across our platforms. HITRUST r2 certification reinforces Surescripts’ dedication to network integrity and compliance across the network and on behalf of every Surescripts Network Alliance® participant,” said Judy Hatchett, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Surescripts. “Data protection and information security are critical to advancing health intelligence sharing that provides clinicians and healthcare professionals with timely access to the clinical and benefit information they need to deliver quality, safe and less costly care for their patients.”

“HITRUST certification is globally recognized as validation that information security and privacy controls are effective and compliant with various regulations. HITRUST certification is considered the gold standard because of the comprehensiveness and applicability of the control requirements, depth of the assurance process, and level of oversight that ensures accuracy,” said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer at HITRUST.

Surescripts’ technology and data infrastructure platforms that achieved HITRUST r2 Certification include, but are not limited to:

• Clinical Direct Messaging
• Directories/Directory Manager
• E-Prescribing
• Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances
• Electronic Prior Authorization
• Eligibility & Formulary
• Master Patient Index
• Medication History for Populations
• Medication History for Ambulatory and Reconciliation
• Provider portal
• Real-Time Prescription Benefit
• Record Locator & Exchange
• Specialty Patient Enrollment
• Surescripts Health Information Network™ Interconnect
• Workbench and other supporting application infrastructure

About Surescripts

Our purpose is to serve the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. At Surescripts, we bring healthcare together to inform and accelerate decisions, helping keep patient care on track. With the Surescripts Network Alliance®, we’re empowering the healthcare ecosystem with intelligence and interoperability for smarter, faster prescribing, prior authorization, treatment, care management and more. Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Fonte: Business Wire