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organizational readiness assessment

Why Organizational Readiness Assessments are Important

What is an organizational readiness assessment? An organizational readiness assessment is an official measurement of the preparedness of your company to undergo a major change or take on a significant new project. You don’t want to jump into a big change or project without knowing if your company has the resources to accomplish it effectively. …

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HITRUST® Scope: Factors to Determine HITRUST Engagement

The HITRUST CSF® is a risk- and compliance-based controls framework which helps organizations to validate the privacy and security of their information systems. As an organization prepares for HITRUST CSF assessments, it must outline the scope of engagement. Determining the scope makes it possible to efficiently evaluate the right data and systems during the given …

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HITRUST Quality Assurance

Overview of the HITRUST Quality Assurance Review Process

The HITRUST® Quality Assurance Review is the fourth phase of the journey towards certification. During this phase, the HITRUST Assurance and Compliance teams will both check the validated assessment and determine whether the organization has met the requirements to achieve certification. In this in-depth series of articles about the process to achieve HITRUST CSF Certification, …

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Why Healthcare Security Is A Must

In recent years, hackers have been profiting from private healthcare data, and these types of security incidences show no signs of stopping anytime soon. With significant healthcare breaches like those that affected Molina Healthcare, which impacted 4.8 million patients, and the hundreds of thousands of children’s health records that were compromised from pediatricians’ offices, it …

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HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth: Avoiding HIPAA Violations During A Pandemic

Ensuring patients get the medical attention they need, while limiting interactions and travel in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, telehealth has rapidly expanded in 2020. As many offices made the shift to WFH setups and remote working, health care professionals have been encouraged to practice virtual medicine whenever possible. Yet, the recent reliance …

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HITRUST Shared Responsibility™ Program CSP Security Control

HITRUST Shared Responsibility™ Program: Understanding CSP Security Control Coverage

From storing customer data, deploying business-related apps, or hosting computer system infrastructures, cloud service demands are on the rise for business owners. Having the right cloud service provider allows you to keep your operations running. Yet you also understand that by using the cloud to gather, store and transmit data, you’ll need the appropriate security …

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