Healthcare industry companies join to define security standards in 2008
Rehab Regs, December 14, 2007
In order to create a set of security standards for electronic health records (EHR), nine healthcare companies have joined with the Health Information Trust Alliance (Hitrust), a Frisco, TX-based organization created to oversee the project, according to a December 5 article in The Wall Street Journal.
"In an effort to improve the security of sensitive health information, major organizations from across the healthcare and employer spectrum have united to participate in the development of the first ever common security framework for the protection of health information," according to the December 5 news brief on the Hitrust Web site.
Other healthcare organizations have previously attempted to create security standards, but the standards have not been widely adapted. Members of the executive council of Hitrust and of the companies working with Hitrust, say that they "hope the size and the number of companies involved in the effort will allow their standard to succeed where others haven't," according to The Wall Street Journal.
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