ATLANTA--(Business Wire)-- Compliance 360, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for enterprise governance, risk management and compliance (eGRC) announced today the availability of the Compliance 360 HITECH Privacy Breach Management Solution. This new solution from Compliance 360 is used by healthcare providers and health insurance companies as their system of record for managing suspected privacy breaches, facilitating investigations, completing timely notifications of affected parties and maintaining an audit-ready state as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The privacy breach management regulations in the HITECH Act create significant new compliance risks for healthcare providers, health plans and their business associates that have access to protected health information (PHI) data. In response to these new regulatory burdens, Compliance 360 is making a limited use version of its HITECH Privacy Breach Management Solution available for free usage, for a period of up to one year, for up to 100 organizations.

"Faced with increasing compliance risks created by the HITECH Act, and a clear need among healthcare providers and health plans to mitigate these risks, we`ve mobilized to quickly bring this new solution to the market," said Steve McGraw, president and CEO of Compliance 360. "Because we recognize that the healthcare industry also faces unprecedented cost pressures, we`ve decided to make the HITECH Privacy Breach Management Solution available for free to a broad number of organizations. By taking advantage of the free-use program, we believe that healthcare providers and insurance companies can benefit immediately by reducing their compliance risks. Many of them, for the first time, will also be able to experience the power of the healthcare industry`s leading GRC solutions from Compliance 360."

Healthcare and insurance companies interested in participating in the Compliance 360 HITECH Privacy Breach Management free-use program should contact Breach.Management@compliance360.com.

About Compliance 360 for Healthcare

Compliance 360 is the leading provider of enterprise governance, risk management, compliance and audit management solutions for healthcare industries. With these solutions, healthcare providers and health plans reduce risks, improve efficiencies and protect their brands using a single platform to address their comprehensive GRC requirements. The Compliance 360 solution for healthcare addresses the need for policy management, centralized regulatory management including HITECH, HIPAA, EMTALA, STARK and others, accreditation, OIG corporate integrity agreements (CIA), False Claims Act (FCA) compliance, adverse-event management, contract management, surveys, remediation projects, claims audits and denials, Medicare RAC audits, Medicaid MIC Audits, self assessments, and enterprise risk management. Industry leading healthcare providers and health plans that depend on Compliance 360 include AMERIGROUP, Billings Clinic,Centene Corporation, Catholic Healthcare Systems, Health Net, IASIS Healthcare, InterDent, Jackson Memorial Hospital, LHC Group, Methodist Hospital, MultiCare Health System, Nassau University Medical Center, Rush Health Systems, Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, St. Elizabeth Medical Center, St. Luke's Health System, WellPoint, and more than 31 Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations. To learn more about Compliance 360, visit www.compliance360.com.

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