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LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCSI), a global leader of digital cloud fax technology and trusted provider of interoperability solutions, has been named a 2024 CSO Award winner from Foundry's CSO. This prestigious honor is bestowed upon a select group of organizations that have implemented security projects and initiatives demonstrating outstanding business value and thought leadership."Our receipt of the CSO Award for the Compliance 365 security project is a significant milestone that reflects our dedication to maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance," said Jeffrey Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer of Consensus Cloud Solutions. "This award is a demonstration of our team's hard work, innovation, and commitment. It acknowledges our proactive stance in implementing cutting-edge security measures and our relentless pursuit of excellence in protecting our clients' data. We are honored to be recognized among the best in the industry and remain resolute in our mission to establish new benchmarks in cybersecurity."This award serves as the most recent testament to Consensus' goal of delivering secure and reliable cloud solutions

Bevey Miner EVP, Healthcare Strategy & Policy for Consensus Cloud SolutionsThere’s been a strong push for a FHIR standard for information sharing in healthcare. Although a standard built on application programming interfaces (APIs) using data standards like FHIR is a step in the right direction, in today’s healthcare ecosystem, there’s a broader impact to consider.The industry avoided a major health equity setback when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of National Coordinator (ONC) nixed prescriptive language in the HTI-1 rule, passed in December, that would have incentivized providers to share information from the EHR using direct secure messaging or a Health Level Seven (HL7®) International Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) structured messaging. Language in the proposed rule specifically stated that providers would be penalized for the use of digital cloud faxing to send and receive information from the certified EHR. Such a move would have had significant implications for smaller care settings like post-acute facilities that treat our most vulnerable patients. These are providers that weren’t eligible for EHR implementation incentives and thus lack the advanced infrastructures of those that were.It’s not the first time the industry has seen efforts to require healthcare providers and health plans to leverage FHIR-only communications to share data