The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) aims to develop, in coordination with organizations that represent the full spectrum of the healthcare industry, a common security framework for use by all parties that create, access, store, or exchange personal health information. Recognizing that the issues surrounding security of sensitive health information are complex and diverse, but critical to the continued adoption, effective utilization and consumer confidence in health and biomedical information technology, HITRUST has assembled a broad array of participants to develop a framework that provides a higher level of security that ultimately creates trust in the electronic flow of information through the healthcare system.

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HITRUST is led by an Executive Council made up of leaders from across the healthcare industry and its supporters. Council representatives, and founding participants, include CVS Caremark, Cisco Systems, GE Healthcare, Highmark Inc., Hospital Corporation of America, Humana, Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc., Philips Healthcare and Pitney Bowes.

Beyond the development of the common security framework, HITRUST will also drive adoption and widespread confidence in the framework through education, advocacy and other outreach activities. Ultimately, an organization’s adoption of the framework will establish certainty in its ability to ensure the security of personal health information.