The significant updates to the 2018 criteria are in a large part due to EHNAC's recently announced partnership with HITRUST. The two organizations have collaborated to streamline the security and compliance assurances of the healthcare industry, while reducing the complexity, redundancy and costs of pursuing both HITRUST CSF certification and any of EHNAC's 18 program-specific accreditations. All EHNAC accreditation program criteria, except CEAP, have adopted privacy and security requirements from HITRUST CSF V9.0. EHNAC will now accept a HITRUST certified assessment in lieu of completing the privacy and security sections of these programs, provided the HITRUST assessment was appropriately scoped. The organization will continue to focus on further enhancements to its stakeholder-specific criteria, while providing input to HITRUST on the privacy and security criteria.

"In addition to the large overhaul of our criteria's privacy and security sections with HITRUST's CSF requirements, a wide range of other enhancements have been made to each program based on feedback from accredited organizations and approved recommendations from the EHNAC Criteria Committee," said Ron Moser, EHNAC Senior Site Reviewer/Auditor. "These include clarifications, updates to ancillary documentation included with EHNAC packages, elimination of some criteria, clarification on the requirement for claims attachments backups, and additional customer support criteria, among others. And throughout this 60-day public review period, we hope to receive even more feedback from the industry and stakeholders as they determine the effectiveness of these changes."

The 18 enhanced criteria programs and the new version numbers associated include:

1. ACOAP - Accountable Care Organization Accreditation Program (V3.0)
2. CEAP - Cloud Enabled Accreditation Program¹(V1.2)
3. DRAP - Data Registry Accreditation Program (V3.0)
4. DTAAP-CA - Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program for Certificate Authorities (V3.0)
5. DTAAP-HISP P&S² - Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program for Health Information Service Providers (V1.0)
6. DTAAP-RA - Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program for Registration Authorities (V3.0)
7. ePAP-EHN - e-Prescribing Accreditation Program (V8.0)
8. EPCSCP-Pharmacy - Electronic Prescription of Controlled Substances Certification Program - Pharmacy Vendor (V3.0)
9. EPCSCP-Prescribing - Electronic Prescription of Controlled Substances Certification Program - Prescribing Vendor (V3.0)
10. FSAP-EHN - Financial Services Accreditation Program for Electronic Health Networks (V4.0)
11. FSAP-Lockbox - Financial Services Accreditation Program for Lockbox Services (V4.0)
12. HIEAP - Health Information Exchange Accreditation Program (V3.0)
13. HNAP-EHN - Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Electronic Health Networks [Includes Payer] (V12.0)
14. HNAP-Medical Biller - Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Medical Billers (V3.0)
15. HNAP-TPA - Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Third Party Administrators (V3.0)
16. MSOAP - Management Service Organization Accreditation Program (V3.0)
17. OSAP - Outsourced Services Accreditation Program³ (V3.0)
18. PMSAP - Practice Management System Accreditation Program (V3.0)