EHNAC Accredits GE for Safe Data Delivery

JANUARY 23, 2006 — GE Healthcare announced today that the company received full corporate accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), the not-for-profit accrediting agency for entities that send or receive HIPAA transactions or that transport or process EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions between two or more trading partners in the healthcare community.
The accreditation, based upon supplied documentation and site visit evaluation, is granted for a two-year period. According to EHNAC’s website, 25 healthcare organizations, including GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions, are currently fully accredited.
“Today, GE Healthcare’s Centricity EDI Services joins a select group of clearinghouses that have demonstrated to independent third party evaluators their ability to deliver services consistent with the only standards in the industry that measure the overall business practices of a clearinghouse,” said Lee Barrett, executive director of EHNAC.
EHNAC’s site reviewer worked with GE Healthcare’s clearinghouse staff to review the commission’s comprehensive accreditation criteria, including validation of GE’s security and privacy policies and production services.