Dec 13
2017
Vyne Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification to Further Mitigate Risk in Third-Party Privacy, Security and Compliance
Vyne, a leading provider of health information exchange and electronic claims attachment solutions, today announced its Trace™ and FastAttach® solutions have earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST. With the HITRUST CSF Certified Status, these solutions meet key healthcare regulations and requirements for protecting and securing sensitive private healthcare information.
HITRUST CSF Certified status indicates that Vyne Medical’s Trace solution and NEA Powered by Vyne’s FastAttach dental software have met industry defined requirements for appropriately managing risk, and places Vyne 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.
“Today’s medical and dental providers face ever-increasing pressure to meet and maintain compliance requirements, such as HIPAA and other complicated regulations established to protect patient health information,” said Lindy Benton, president and CEO of Vyne. “The HITRUST CSF is the gold-standard in managing regulatory compliance and risk, and Vyne is excited to demonstrate its commitment to data security by achieving HITRUST CSF Certification.”
HITRUST CSF is a certifiable framework that provides organizations with a comprehensive, flexible and efficient approach to regulatory compliance and risk management. Developed in collaboration with information security professionals, the HITRUST CSF rationalizes relevant regulations and standards into a single overarching security framework. Because the HITRUST CSF is both risk- and compliance-based, organizations can tailor the security control baselines based on a variety of factors, including organization type, size, systems and regulatory requirements.
“The HITRUST CSF has become the information protection framework for the healthcare 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 CSF Certification is now the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard PHI are measured against with regards to information protection.”
The newly certified Trace solution is the flagship product of Vyne Medical’s proven technology platform for effectively managing healthcare communication and facilitating the secure exchange of health information. More than 600 leading hospital and health systems utilize Vyne Medical solutions to manage critical patient information that typically resides outside the electronic health record and leverage the data for improved financial performance, operational efficiency and patient experience.
FastAttach from NEA is the dental sector’s leading electronic information exchange solution used by more than 50,000 providers across the US. For over 20 years, dental providers and payers have utilized FastAttach to facilitate the exchange of hundreds of millions of claim attachments and other supporting documentation.
About Vyne
Vyne™ is the industry leader in secure health information exchange and electronic healthcare communication management. The company’s robust technology platform facilitates the electronic capture, storage and submission of healthcare data in any form – voice, fax, image, data or electronic document. Vyne’s proven solutions connect disconnected data to close gaps in documentation and improve the continuum of care through a more complete and fully accessible patient record. Outcomes include improved financial strength, operational performance and patient experience for medical and dental providers and payers. For more information, visit www.vynecorp.com.