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With healthcare organizations facing escalating cyberattacks, one-time security assessment scores and snapshot certifications are no longer enough. The HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) provides an unmatched security foundation based on continuous assessment and controls.

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<h6>WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO SECURE YOUR PRACTICE</h6>
<h4>The costs of data ransom, regulatory fines, business disruption, and loss of patient trust have made security controls for critical healthcare data a top priority for IT professionals.</h4>
IT security and compliance regulations and best practices are defined by an array of federal and state regulations and industry standards, as well as policies and frameworks from a variety of associations and bodies. All that makes it difficult for provider organizations to fully understand what they need to do to mitigate security risk. For many organizations, an annual HIPAA assessment acts as the foundation for their security measures, but today’s threat landscape is evolving in sophisticated ways every day.

And the stakes are high.

Without the proper systems in place, healthcare organizations may be exposed to security breaches or noncompliance with industry standards. Penalties can be directed at providers, the organization, and even individuals who have responsibility for the organization’s security policies and practices. In addition, the impact of bad press and loss of patient trust may never be fully recoverable.

Unfortunately, many providers still struggle to create and maintain effective risk-mitigation policies and procedures. Demands for providers and staff to serve more patients often lead to security controls being softened for user convenience. For resource-constrained healthcare IT departments, an additional challenge is to understand the requirements and implement them with an IT strategy that is also affordable, manageable, and scalable over time.

Cloud hosting that is HITRUST CSF-certified is one of the most strategic and effective ways for healthcare organizations to gain confidence in their IT security posture. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) helps organizations address risk through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.

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<h3>A Step-by-Step Approach to Successful Analysis, Planning, and Testing</h3>
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<h4>Upgrade your NextGen Enterprise EHR without missing a beat.</h4>
Staying on top of updates for mission-critical software such as your NextGen electronic health record (EHR) can feel overwhelming for IT departments. Major releases such as the NextGen Enterprise Spring ’21 release (v6.2021.1) typically occur once or twice a year and bring new enhancements, features, and fixes. These add capabilities, but can also create significant change for your organization. Smaller updates for NextGen ancillary products, medications, and formularies may be exactly what you’ve been waiting for, and monthly patch updates fix known issues on a regular basis, but both take IT resources away from other important projects.
<h4>With all of these updates to maintain a healthy system, it’s no wonder your IT group can struggle to stay on top of it all.</h4>
This NextGen Upgrade Guide for IT lays out proven strategies to upgrade your EHR as smoothly and efficiently as possible so your practice can get back to what it does best—taking care of patients.
<h4>Determine your “why”</h4>
Before you get started, take a step back and analyze why you need this new release. For many practices, there’s no question it has to happen as soon as possible. Some practices may be able to wait and upgrade NextGen at a time that better matches other IT plans and initiatives. Make sure you understand these three important elements of the NextGen v6.2021.1 release:
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 	<li><strong>Regulatory compliance.</strong> The new release fully supports compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act, including new information blocking requirements, and is on track to meet ONC 2015 Edition Cures Update Criteria for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements.
<em>Important: If your providers participate in MIPS, you must upgrade to 6.2021 prior to 2023 reporting. While 2023 may sound far-off, there may be several time-consuming steps before you can complete your upgrade in production.</em></li>
 	<li><strong>Latest operating systems.</strong> The new release requires the latest operating systems (OSes) for Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, and SQL Server. If you need to update those as well, that must happen before you begin your NextGen upgrade.
<em>Important: OS and database upgrades can have unintended consequences, such as a need for updated server hardware. If you’ve been considering moving your EHR to the cloud, this might be the tipping point.</em></li>
 	<li><strong>New patient portal.</strong> With this release, the new Patient Experience Platform (PxP) replaces the Patient Portal, providing a better web presence and more user-friendly experience for patients.
<em>Important: The Patient Portal will no longer be integrated in NextGen v6.2021 and higher, so the new PxP portal must be installed and migrated at the same time as the EHR and database upgrades.</em></li>
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NextGen Upgrade Guide for IT

<h3>Solve multiple technology and business challenges with one strategic move.</h3>
What if there was one IT decision you could make that could improve your security posture, reduce downtime risks, scale down your overall IT costs, eliminate surprise infrastructure expenses, and help your providers and staff be more efficient and less frustrated by technology? Moving to the cloud could be that decision.

With your clinical and business applications in the cloud, you get fast, secure, and reliable access to your practice and patient data. The difference is, you no longer have tens—or hundreds—of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment and software sitting in your office.

That’s equipment and software you no longer need to buy, house, insure, maintain, secure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and replace every few years. Without that technology overhead burden, you can continue to build your practice knowing that you have the IT resiliency to respond to new requirements without breaking a sweat.

Discover why now is the time to move your practice to the cloud built for healthcare.
<h4>Reason 1 - The cloud is secure and compliant—when it’s built for healthcare.</h4>
With lives and personal health information at stake, healthcare organizations are especially vulnerable to security threats. We protect your private or public cloud infrastructure with best-in-class security experts and technology, from a managed security operations center (SOC) to incident response teams, to ensure continuity of service. Our cloud team works side-by-side with these experts to make sure that your environment is protected to the fullest possible extent, and that we can respond immediately to threats to minimize your risk.

In addition, our HITRUST certification gives your practice risk assurance for both internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, and eases your HIPAA compliance audits. A cloud platform built for healthcare is certified to meet the stringent requirements for the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF). This is the gold standard for healthcare organizations who need to safeguard patients’ personal health information and critical practice data. HITRUST CSF consolidates more than 15 global security standards and regulations (including HIPAA, PCI, COBIT, NIST, ISO, FTC, and state laws) along with leading practice frameworks.

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