Access Healthcare Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification to Improve Security Posture, and Meet Compliance Requirements

DALLAS, Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Access Healthcare, one of the largest providers of the revenue cycle business process and IT services, today announced that the following systems and infrastructure of the organization have earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST,

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• Desktops, Laptops, File Server, Network Devices, Active Directory, Application Server, Database Application and Server, and FTPS (File Transfer Protocol Secured) Server
• For the following locations – Ambattur (Headquarters), Kochar Technology Park, DLF IT Park, One India Bulls Park, Ambattur – (Base Camp), Tidel Park, Manchester Square, Embassy Tech Zone, Manila (Site 1), Manila (Site 2), and Manila (Site 3)

HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the organization's systems and infrastructure has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Access Healthcare Services 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.

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"In recent years, the healthcare industry has seen increasing security threats across all facets of IT infrastructure," says Shaji Ravi, President and Managing Director of Access Healthcare. He continues, "This requires healthcare organizations like Access Healthcare adhere to its risk assessments and security framework to the highest standards in the industry. Achieving the HITRUST CSF Certification is critical to support our vision towards becoming a preferred healthcare service provider in the industry."

"The HITRUST CSF has become the information protection framework for the health care industry, and the CSF Assurance program is bringing a new level of effectiveness and efficiency to third-party assurance," said Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST. "The HITRUST CSF Certification is now the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard PHI are measured against with regards to information protection."

About Access Healthcare Access Healthcare provides business process outsourcing, applications services, and robotic process automation tools to healthcare providers, payers, and related service providers. We operate from 19 delivery centers in the US, India and the Philippines, and our 12,000+ staff is committed to bringing revenue cycle excellence to our customers by leveraging technology, emerging best practices, and global delivery. Based in Dallas, we support over 300,000 physicians, serve 80+ specialties, process over $70 billion of A/R annually, and ascribe medical codes to over 30 million charts annually. To learn how Access Healthcare can help your organization boost its financial performance, visit accesshealthcare.com.

 

SOURCE Access Healthcare Services