January 11, 2021
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit, health care quality improvement organization headquartered in Helena, Montana, is partnering with the Great Plains Health Data Network (GPHDN), affiliated with the Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) and the Wyoming Primary Care Association (WYPCA) to help health centers safeguard patient information.
Under a new, three-year contract, Mountain-Pacific will support the privacy and security of patients’ health information by helping GPHDN’s health center members ensure the security standard of their health records. “After a thorough search for a company who could help us meet our data security goals, Mountain-Pacific stood out as an outstanding and cost-effective option for our network. We already began working and couldn’t be happier with the partnership that is being built,” said Kyle Mertens, Health Information and Data Analytics Manager with CHAD.
“Patient privacy and security are a big part of providing quality health care to patients,” said Sara Medley, CEO of Mountain-Pacific. “Our staff has the expertise to help health care providers comply with federal privacy and security laws, so they can focus on what matters most—caring for their patients.”
The GPHDN consists of 11 participating health centers in the Dakotas and Wyoming, consisting of 70 sites, collectively serving over 98,000 patients. As GPHDN’s newest partner, Mountain-Pacific’s security risk assessment services will review and modify current policies as needed, help health centers establish a plan to address a security breach if one were to ever occur and develop a training program for employees to minimize the risk of an information breach.
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