Allegiance Group Earns Security Certification

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (July 16, 2018)—Allegiance Group, a provider of patient-pay collections, announced COLLECTPlus has earned Certified status for information security from HITRUST.

HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the organization’s COLLECTPlus application has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Allegiance Group 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.

“Organizations are under great pressure to meet complex compliance requirements that include technical and process elements such as HIPAA, NIST, ISO and COBIT,” said Anne Orrick, COO at Allegiance Group. “The HITRUST CSF is the gold standard that needs to be met, and Allegiance Group is pleased to be able to demonstrate its commitment by achieving HITRUST CSF Certification.”

 “The HITRUST CSF has become the information protection framework for the health care industry, and the CSF Assurance program is bringing a new level of effectiveness and efficiency to third-party assurance,” said Ken Vander Wal, chief compliance officer, HITRUST. “The HITRUST CSF Certification is now the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard protected health information (PHI) are measured against with regards to information protection.”

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