Epstein Becker Green Recognized as a HITRUST CSF Assessor to Provide Clients with Security and Privacy Risk Assessment for Protected Health Care Information
Epstein Becker Green has been designated by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) as a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor. This will allow the firm to provide health care organizations with privacy and security risk assessments to protect the entities from breaches of protected health information (PHI). The health care industry has accepted the HITRUST CSF as the most widely adopted security framework. Epstein Becker Green is the first law firm to become a CSF Assessor and the designation exemplifies the firm's distinct capability to identify and address risk for health care industry clients.
HITRUST provides resources, tools, education, and training to develop and maintain effective security programs for health care and life sciences companies that comply with security laws, regulations, and standards including HITECH, HIPAA, PCI, JCAHO, CMS, ISO, NIST, and various other federal, state, and business requirements.
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Comments (2)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endLegal Document - May 11, 2012 3:16 PM
This service sounds intriguing. Do you think that these kinds of audits should be exclusively the province of law firms, or are you comfortable with the many non-lawyers who provide similar assessments? Do you think increasingly law firms will expand this service with subcontractors, by offering clients the technology resources to actually implement, for instance, HIPAA security safeguard requirements?
Michelle Capezza - May 14, 2012 11:04 AM
The advantage of the services offered by EBG is that it provides clients with legal sign-off on the audit as it is performed by attorneys. It is likely the audit services and technology recommendations will evolve with the needs of the clients.