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HITRUST

is a common security framework group overseeing Electronic Health Record management.Their stated goal is to :

• Reduce confusion by implementing a single framework across multiple organizations
• Increase confidence by consumers, regulators and legislators in the industry’s ability to address these issues and to proactively protect sensitive information and healthcare systems
• Establish a single standard for organizations for internal and external measurement
• Reduce the number and complexity of security audits or reviews that organizations impose upon their trading partners

They plan to enroll around 155 members by the end of Feb 2008 in order to implement their framework.One of the major concerns is that this group currently involves only Major health care service providers,no small HIT vendors or hospital networks are part of this core group. it is comprised of only large health corporations like CVS Caremark, Cisco Systems, GE Healthcare, Highmark Inc., Hospital Corporation of America, Humana, Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc., Philips Healthcare and Pitney Bowes.


The Questions raised across blogs is Can a few companies implement a standard for security in a major domain like Health without involvement of all stakeholders?

Will it succeed? and what about Personal Health Records?

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