HITRUST CSF Certification validates that Tampa General Hospital has implemented systems to meet key regulations and protect sensitive information.
Tampa General Hospital’s (TGH) strict cyber security measures, which protect the hospital’s patients, team members, and partners, have received national recognition by earning HITRUST CSF® Certification by HITRUST, the Health Information Trust Alliance.
HITRUST CSF® Certification demonstrates that the organization’s electronic medical record systems and infrastructure to protect patient and provider information have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and are appropriately managing risk.
Tampa General also has been recognized in the information technology arena as one of the Digital Health Most Wired recipients nine consecutive times by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). TGH is one of only five hospitals in Florida to receive Certified Level 9 (out of 10) recognition in both the Acute and Ambulatory levels from CHIME for 2021.
The HITRUST achievement places Tampa General Hospital in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. It took Tampa General three years to complete the hundreds of supporting requirements in 19 information technology control categories required to meet the rigorous standards of the certification. During this time, Clearwater, Fla.-based Security Compliance Associates performed a HITRUST Validated Assessment and related services to help facilitate the certification and remains a valued cybersecurity partner for TGH.
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.
“Organizations like ours are under more pressure than ever to meet complex compliance and privacy requirements that include technical and process elements that are included in industry-established frameworks such as HIPAA,” said Peter Rucys, chief information security officer at Tampa General Hospital. “We are pleased to demonstrate to our customers the highest standards for protecting sensitive data and information by achieving HITRUST CSF Certification.”
“The HITRUST CSF Assurance Program is the most rigorous available, consisting of a multitude of quality assurance checks, both automated and manual,” said Bimal Sheth, vice president of Assurance Services at HITRUST. “The fact that Tampa General Hospital has achieved HITRUST CSF Certification attests to the high quality of its information risk management and compliance program.”
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