HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Accreditations for MedRisk

MedRisk, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Accreditations from URAC, a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry.

URAC’s HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security accreditation programs outline a framework of best practices that describe the operational policies and procedures necessary for an effective compliance program.

According to MedRisk’s Chief Operating Officer Jerry Poole, both accreditations are essential to MedRisk’s business model. “As a manager of specialty medical networks, MedRisk needs to safeguard the personal health information of our clients’ claimants,” he said. “Second, as a provider of claims management systems to payers, we need to ensure that our information technology is reliable and secure. URAC HIPAA accreditation is the ‘gold standard’ that demonstrates our achievement of these objectives.”