13.6. Answering Requirement Statements

By Default, all Requirement Statements will be inherently owned by Management. If you wish to provide the scoring as an Internal Assessor, you can either designate individual Requirement Statements or entire Assessment Domains as having be addressed by an Internal Assessor. Doing so will make the Requirement Statements editable by you and read-only for Management.

1. From the Assessment Questionnaire page, go to any of the 19 Assessment Domains to begin your testing.
2. A list of your Requirement Statements will appear; select one that you would like to answer. Once picked, it will expand and expose the attributes that can be modified.
3. Once expanded, press the ‘Tested by Internal Assessor in accordance with HITRUST’s Assurance Program Requirements’ checkbox above the maturity inputs to designate individual Statement(s) to be tested by an IA. If you are wishing to designate the entire domain to be tested by an IA, then simply press the ‘Internal Assessors have tested all Assessment Statements in this Domain’ checkbox atop of the domain.
4. Use the five maturity inputs on the right half of the page to complete the Requirement Statement(s). Provide any wanted commentary in the text area beneath the maturity drop-downs.
5. Press ‘Save’.

Tested by Internal Assessor