BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abacus Insights, a leading data integration and interoperability platform that enables health plans and their providers to create a more personalized healthcare experience for consumers, today announced that the Abacus Platform, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
“Protecting health information is critical to the health plans we serve,” said Minal Patel, Founder and CEO of Abacus Insights. “Achieving the HITRUST CSF as well as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework certifications gives our health plan clients and their members confidence that their data will remain private and secure. These certifications are a testament to our team’s security expertise and reflect the importance we place on privacy, security and compliance.”
HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the Abacus Platform (hosted by AWS) has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Abacus Insights 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 CSF helps organizations address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
“Our investment in our security program and the focus and skill set of our teams allowed us to achieve the HITRUST CSF Certification, as well as our certification of compliance with the NIST Cybersecurity framework, in a relatively short time frame,” said Bill Brown, CISO and CIO of Abacus Insights. “Our solutions are designed to enable our clients to achieve better insights from their data and most importantly keep it private and secure.”
“In today’s ever-changing threat landscape, HITRUST is continually innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges,” said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer, HITRUST. “Abacus Insights’ HITRUST CSF Certification is evidence that they are at the forefront of industry best practices for information risk management and compliance.”
About Abacus Insights
Abacus Insights enables health plans to offer a seamless, personalized care experience for members by reconciling thousands of unique attributes about individual consumers and their health that legacy systems simply cannot. Today, Abacus Insights with its health plan clients manage data for more than 10 million members and 15 million consumers. We allow health plans to fulfill a critical role in ensuring that when a member visits the doctor’s office, lab, pharmacy, specialist, hospital and even at home -- the care provider always knows who they are, creating an “n-of-1” experience for all. For more information, please visit www.abacusinsights.com, LinkedIn, or Twitter @abacusinsights.
