Accretive Health Achieves HITRUST Certification
Summary
Our team has shown those qualities again this year.” “Achieving and maintaining this certification demonstrates a continuous, focused and robust set of processes and procedures that are driving a world class organization,” stated Philip Burnett, director of information technology security and chief security officer.“At Accretive Health, we have a cross-functional team consisting of employees in our IT infrastructure and security, internal audit, and compliance departments working together to monitor for and resolve any IT-related concerns,” added Roy Stephens, vice president for information technology infrastructure, “It’s a continuous commitment to excellence.The CSF is an information security framework that harmonizes the requirements of existing standards and regulations, including federal (HIPAA, HITECH), third party (PCI, COBIT), and government (NIST, FTC).Accretive Health originally obtained CSF Certified status in 2013 by meeting all of the applicable CSF requirements, including rigorous encryption and inventory management policies and practices as well as ongoing security monitoring and comprehensive review performed by a third party HITRUST CSF Assessor organization.“At Accretive Health, we have a cross-functional team consisting of employees in our IT infrastructure and security, internal audit, and compliance departments working together to monitor for and resolve any IT-related concerns,” added Roy Stephens, vice president for information technology infrastructure, “It’s a continuous commitment to excellence.The CSF is an information security framework that harmonizes the requirements of existing standards and regulations, including federal (HIPAA, HITECH), third party (PCI, COBIT), and government (NIST, FTC).