Censinet®, MassChallenge HealthTech Partner through Together.Health to Fuel the Creation and Adoption of Secure and Compliant Digital Health Innovation
Post Summary
Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech partnered to streamline risk assessments, ensure HIPAA compliance, and foster secure digital health innovation.
It’s a nationwide, open risk assessment framework designed to help healthcare vendors manage assessments and meet regulatory standards.
Vendors can complete risk assessments using the Censinet platform at no cost and access best practices, policies, and controls for managing risk.
Together.Health aims to drive digital health innovation by enabling collaboration, sharing best practices, and protecting patient data.
Censinet provides the industry’s first third-party risk management platform built for healthcare, reducing assessment times from weeks to seconds.
Partnership to help health ecosystem stakeholders prepare for risk assessments and meet regulatory standards
BOSTON – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Today Censinet, the leading collaborative risk network for healthcare organizations, and MassChallenge HealthTech, a digital health program based in Boston, Massachusetts that enables collaborative partnerships between startups, industry partners, and governments, announced a partnership to help health systems and their vendors quickly and effectively deliver risk assessments and meet HIPAA security and other regulatory standards.
Both organizations participate in Together.Health, a collaborative of healthcare accelerators, incubators, innovation programs, governments, and associations focused on catalyzing digital health innovation. Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech are both on the project steering committee for the Together.Health Security Assessment, a nationwide and open risk assessment framework.
“Censinet and Together.Health believe that by arming third-parties with the right tools, best practices and education, we can significantly reduce risks to patient data, care and safety,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet. “We’re excited about the partnership and continuing to advance our mutual mission of creating a secure and productive healthcare ecosystem.”
Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech will collaborate with Together.Health and its community of digital health ecosystem leaders to curate the Together.Health Security Assessment (THSA), support the standard assessment in the Censinet platform, and enable digital healthcare vendors to manage their assessments with Censinet at no cost. The two organizations will also provide digital healthcare vendors with an educational program that includes best practices, policies, procedures and controls for managing risk, starting with MassChallenge HealthTech’s current cohort of digital health startups.
“The goal of Together.Health is to bring organizations together to work collaboratively to share best practices and leverage existing resources to drive digital health innovation,” said Nick Dougherty, Managing Director of MassChallenge HealthTech. “We need to mitigate risk and protect patient data. Censinet has been an early collaborator to this project and we’re looking forward to streamlining the risk assessment process for digital health startups and established vendors together.”
About Censinet
Censinet provides the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for healthcare organizations to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an expanding ecosystem of vendors. With its unique Censinet One-click AssessmentTM capabilities and Digital Vendor CatalogTM, the Censinet Platform reduces the time to assess vendor risk from weeks to seconds, while automating inefficient workflows and providing continuous real-time insights into the changing risk profile of each vendor. Censinet is based in Boston, MA and can be found at https://censinet.com/
About Together.Health
Together.Health (formerly the Digital Health Collaborative) is large and growing quickly, representing over 40 digital health accelerators, incubators, economic development organizations, government organizations, and other community leaders. These organizations work with thousands of partners, startups, investors, thought leaders, and politicians from around the world. By leveraging the regional strength of these organizations at a national and international level, Together.Health is well-positioned to make a massive impact for the health industry.
About MassChallenge
MassChallenge is more than an accelerator. MassChallenge believes that solving the world’s massive challenges starts with helping entrepreneurs win.
Since 2010, MassChallenge startups raised over $5B in funding, earned over $2.7B in revenue, created over 130,000 jobs, and significantly impacted issues like health, climate change, and food. Its programs are all equity free, serve locations all over the world (including Israel, Mexico, and Switzerland), and drive success through world-class mentorship, industry-agnostic and vertically-focused programming, innovation advising, and startup-corporate-government collaboration.
Contacts
Contact:
Nicole Rosenberg
fama PR for Censinet
(617) 986-5041
censinet@famapr.com
Contact for MassChallenge HealthTech and Together.Health
Natalie Cantave
(732) 977-6778
natalie@masschallenge.org
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Key Points:
What is the partnership between Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech?
- Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech aim to enhance digital health innovation by streamlining risk assessments for healthcare vendors.
- The partnership provides vendors with tools to complete risk assessments efficiently and meet HIPAA and other regulatory standards.
- Both organizations collaborate through Together.Health to curate the Together.Health Security Assessment (THSA).
- Vendors gain access to best practices, policies, and controls for managing risk.
What is the Together.Health Security Assessment (THSA)?
- A nationwide, open framework designed to streamline risk assessments for healthcare vendors.
- Helps healthcare vendors and providers meet regulatory standards, including HIPAA compliance.
- Supported by the Censinet platform to automate and manage assessments at no cost for vendors.
- Provides a standardized approach to assessing and mitigating third-party risks in healthcare.
How does this partnership benefit healthcare vendors and startups?
- Offers free access to the Censinet platform for managing risk assessments.
- Reduces the time required for risk assessments from weeks to seconds.
- Provides educational resources, including best practices, policies, and procedures for managing risk.
- Supports MassChallenge HealthTech’s cohort of digital health startups to improve security practices.
- Helps vendors become trusted partners by demonstrating compliance with security frameworks.
What is Together.Health, and what is its mission?
- Together.Health is a collaborative of over 40 healthcare accelerators, incubators, and innovation programs.
- Its mission is to catalyze digital health innovation by enabling collaboration across startups, industry partners, and governments.
- Focuses on sharing best practices and aligning resources to protect patient data and mitigate risk.
- Partners with organizations like Censinet and MassChallenge HealthTech to drive healthcare transformation.
How does Censinet’s platform support risk management in healthcare?
- Provides the first third-party risk management platform purpose-built for healthcare organizations.
- Features the Censinet One-Click Assessment™ and Digital Vendor Catalog™ for streamlined workflows.
- Reduces vendor risk assessment times from weeks to seconds with automated processes.
- Delivers continuous, real-time insights into vendors’ risk profiles, improving cybersecurity and compliance.
What role does MassChallenge HealthTech play in the partnership?
- MassChallenge HealthTech connects startups with healthcare organizations, governments, and industry partners.
- Focuses on fostering innovation and addressing challenges like risk management and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborates with Censinet to educate digital health startups on best practices for managing risks.
- Drives adoption of secure and compliant solutions to protect patient data and improve care delivery.
