Freedom Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

MILTON, Wis. — September 12, 2017 — Freedom, a leading provider of traditional and digital direct mail services, today announced their Restricted Enterprise Data (RED) Environment and ConnectEXECUTE^® Campaign Management System have earned Certified status for information security by the Health Information Trust (HITRUST) Alliance. With the HITRUST CSF Certified Status, Freedom’s RED Environment and ConnectEXECUTE^® platform meet key healthcare regulations and requirements for protecting and securing sensitive private healthcare information.

HITRUST CSF Certified status indicates that the Freedom’s RED Environment and ConnectEXECUTE^® platform have met industry-defined requirements by appropriately managing risk and places Freedom 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 Freedom address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

“Healthcare providers are under great pressure to meet complex compliance requirements that include technical and process elements such as HIPAA, NIST, ISO and COBIT,” said Marty Liebert, President and CEO at Freedom. “The HITRUST CSF is the gold-standard that needs to be met, and Freedom 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 CSF Certification is now the benchmark that organizations required to safeguard PHI are measured against with regards to information protection.”

Source: Freedom.

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