A Healthcare Compliance Leader’s Guide to HITRUST and HIPAA
The guide explains how healthcare compliance teams can integrate their legally-focused HIPAA and security-focused HITRUST programs—despite overlapping controls but separate execution—to streamline evidence collection, unify audit cycles, and improve readiness by managing both from a single control plane, detailing common certification challenges, a pre-assessment checklist, and workflows based on Accorian and ZenGRC expertise.
Your HIPAA and HITRUST Programs Overlap. Your Teams Don’t.
Most healthcare compliance teams are running two programs that were never designed to talk to each other. HIPAA sits with legal. HITRUST sits with security. The controls overlap significantly. The execution does not. The result is duplicate evidence collection, disconnected audit cycles, and a team that is always in preparation mode but rarely feels ready.
This guide breaks down how high-performing healthcare compliance teams run HIPAA and HITRUST from a single control plane. It covers the HIPAA-HITRUST control overlap, why HITRUST certifications stall (and what actually causes failures), and how to build a program where evidence is mapped once and applied across frameworks. Written with field experience from Accorian assessors and the ZenGRC platform team.
Download the guide to see the end-to-end workflow, the pre-assessment benchmark checklist, and what your team needs in place before submitting to HITRUST. If you want to see how ZenGRC and Accorian work together to build this model, request a demo at ZenGRC.com/demo.