NextGen Healthcare Achieves Hitrust CSF® Certification to Manage Risk, Improve Security Posture and Meet Compliance Requirements

CSF Certification further strengthens personal health information security.

Quality Systems, Inc. QSII, known to clients as NextGen Healthcare, today announced that several of its solutions received Certified status, meeting federal and state regulations for information use and exchange by HITRUST. The HITRUST CSF Certification helps organizations safeguard sensitive data through a comprehensive and flexible framework of security controls and incorporate a proactive approach to data management.

The following solutions have earned Certified status: Electronic Health Record (EHR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Services, Practice Management (PM), Population Health, Mobile Solutions, Analytics, Interoperability/Health Information Exchange (HIE), Managed Cloud Services (MCS), and E-Transactions Services.

"Our clients can be assured their sensitive data can be protected according to international and national regulations from the most widely adopted security framework in the U.S. healthcare industry," noted David Slazyk, SVP, data privacy and risk officer, NextGen Healthcare. "This elite achievement reflects our culture of striving for better on behalf of clients."

"HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the information protection requirements are met when sensitive information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment," said Ken Vander Wal, chief compliance officer, HITRUST. "We are pleased that NextGen Healthcare has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect their customers to have confidence in this designation."

About Quality Systems, Inc.

Quality Systems, Inc., known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, provides a range of software, services, and analytics solutions to medical and dental group practices. The company's portfolio delivers foundational capabilities to empower physician success, enrich the patient care experience, and enable the transition to value-based healthcare. Visit www.qsii.com and www.nextgen.com for additional information.

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