What You Ought to Know:
– DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) in the present day introduced an settlement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, efficient January 4, 2023.
– DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare trade alliance created to assist safe, identity-verified digital exchanges of protected well being info. EHNAC is a non-profit requirements growth group and accrediting physique for organizations that electronically trade healthcare information.
Put up-Acquisition Plans
With EHNAC’s incorporation into DirectTrust, DirectTrust anticipates bringing to fruition new accreditation applications, with a program targeted on Credential Service Suppliers associated to shopper entry and use of well being information as an early goal. EHNAC’s senior leaders, Government Director and CEO Lee Barrett and COO Debra Hopkinson are long-standing pillars of the well being IT belief and accreditation communities and can proceed to work for and seek the advice of with DirectTrust. EHNAC employees members and assessors may also be a part of DirectTrust. The EHNAC Fee will stay intact and be designated as Commissioners overseeing accreditation-specific issues. The DirectTrust Board of Administrators will proceed as is.
