The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has accredited the first two beta test participants in its program to accredit data registries.
The nonprofit, federally recognized standards development organization and accrediting body gave full accreditation to Alpha II and FIGmd through the Data Registry Accreditation Program.
DRAP was announced in May as an initiative to ensure such registries met the privacy and security obligations of all companies that handle protected health information. DRAP assesses capabilities for meeting privacy and security, HIPAA, HITECH Act, the Omnibus Rule and ACA requirements. It also assesses technical performance, business processes and resource management.
"We're confident that the need for registries by institutional and professional providers, specialists and their trade associations, healthcare payers, federal and state governments will explode in the years ahead," said Lee Barrett, executive director of EHNAC. "To coincide with that, it is imperative to determine that the registries that are being chosen to use have the necessary protections in place to handle the many privacy and security challenges that they will face."
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