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GHN-Online Awarded Full EHNAC Accreditation 1/30/2008 Dallas, TX – Accreditation Validates and Commends GHN Processes for Transmitting and Handling HIPAA-regulated Transactions Dallas, Texas — January 29, 2008 — GHN-Online, the healthcare industry’s leading provider of real-time revenue cycle management, today announced its full re-accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). EHNAC is an independent, not-for-profit accrediting agency that provides peer evaluation of an organization’s ability to perform industry-established levels relating to sending and receiving Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) transactions. “We are certainly honored to be recognized and accredited by EHNAC,” said Azadeh Farahmand, CEO of GHN-Online. “But, we also applaud the good work that EHNAC is doing to advance standards of excellence within the healthcare-transaction industry.” The EHNAC site assessment and accreditation process evaluates hundreds of business and technology dimensions including data security, system performance monitoring, security compliance, HIPAA standards compliance, policies and procedures, and business practices. “EHNAC assessments are extremely thorough,” continued Farahmand, “and while we received top ratings across the board, we take special pride in the top ratings we received for Privacy and Confidentiality, Disaster Recovery, and Infrastructure and Technical Security Policies as these categories speak volumes on the work we have done to earn our customer’s business and trust.” “GHN-Online joins a select group of healthcare-transaction vendors who 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 About EHNAC The purpose of EHNAC is to promote administrative simplification and cost savings in the healthcare industry and to provide the healthcare transaction industry with an independent capability to develop industry standards, known as EHNAC Criteria. The mission of EHNAC is to promote standards, quality service, innovation, cooperation and open competition within the healthcare EDI industry. The EHNAC Commission seeks to accredit entities that send or receive HIPAA regulated transactions, or that transport or process EDI transactions between two or more trading partners in the healthcare community. These entities include, but are not limited to, clearinghouses, transactions processors, value-added networks (VANs), payers, providers and provider management organizations. http://www.EHNAC.org. About GHN-Online, Inc. GHN-Online, Inc., healthcare’s leading provider of real-time claims management and end-to-end transaction processing solutions, delivered the industry’s first Internet-based preadjudicated claims management tools. HIPAA-compliant and enterprise-class, GHN offers the simplest and fastest claims-to-cash solution, anywhere™. With an open architecture that easily integrates all stakeholders in the healthcare reimbursement model, GHN solutions drive a 100% claims acceptance rate. GHN’s intuitive and format-agnostic capabilities enable instantaneous, complete and accurate electronic claims transactions for thousands of healthcare payers and providers throughout North America. Founded in 1999, GHN-Online is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. For further information contact info@ghnonline.com or call 214.696.5717. URL: www.ghnonline.com. For more information on NPI, please contact GHN at 214.696.5717. PR Contact: Jacquelyn Thrasivoulos, GHN-Online, 508.881.3109, jthrasi@ghnonline.com About GHN-Online |
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