EHNAC certifies first two companies for data registry

Two organizations have completed the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC)'s accreditation process for its Data Registry Accreditation Program (DRAP).

The third-party review was designed in response to the privacy and security challenges of healthcare data submission and to provide an additional level of confidence for organizations that are under industry competitive pressures to demonstrate the rigor and structure of the registry database as envisioned and supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 

"We're confident that the need for registries by institutional and professional providers, specialists and their trade associations, healthcare payers, federal and state governments will explode in the years ahead," said Lee Barrett, executive director of EHNAC. "To coincide with that, it is imperative to determine that the registries that are being chosen to use have the necessary protections in place to handle the many privacy and security challenges that they will face. When it comes to health data privacy and security, the risks are much too high to assume that everything is up to par--it is much better to ensure it is on the frontend by using an accredited entity that has been reviewed by a third-party."

As beta participants throughout the consultative and consensus-driven process of program development, Alpha II and FIGmd were the first to undergo evaluation on their compliance with the criteria and receive full accreditation status for the two-year timeframe.