Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT), a leading provider of health data management and archiving solutions, today announced that it has earned its fifth HITRUST r2 Certification for its ETL Environment, HealthData Platform™, Data Center, and Workstations. This certification demonstrates the organization’s continued excellence in safeguarding protected health information and maintaining the industry’s highest standards for information protection and risk management. The certification was first achieved in 2017.
HITRUST r2 Certification demonstrates that the organization’s systems, products and infrastructure have met demanding regulatory compliance and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Harmony Healthcare IT 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 Assurance Program helps organizations address security and data protection challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
“Achieving our fifth HITRUST r2 Certification underscores our unwavering commitment to protecting sensitive healthcare data,” said Brian Liddell, President and CFO at Harmony Healthcare IT. “Our clients trust us to safeguard their most critical information, and this achievement reaffirms that we consistently meet the industry’s most demanding benchmarks for security, compliance, and privacy.” “The HITRUST Assurance Program is rigorous and reliable because of the comprehensiveness of control requirements, depth of review, and consistency of oversight,” said Bimal Sheth, Executive Vice President, Standards Development & Assurance Operations at HITRUST. “HITRUST r2 Certification demonstrates Harmony Healthcare IT is taking the most proactive approach to cybersecurity, data protection, and risk management.”
