LuxSci has completely overhauled the automated reminders available with its Calendars and Tasks WebAides.

Previously, you could receive an emailed reminder when a task or event was near; now, LuxSci also supports visual/pop-up reminders and SMS/text message reminders, as well as multiple reminders and recurring reminders.

Read on to discover all of the possibilities available with LuxSci’s new Calendar and Task reminder system!

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In February, 2010, the HITECH changes to HIPAA went into effect.  These required that the Business Associates of HIPAA covered entities also be HIPAA Compliant with respect to the Protected Health Information (PHI) they manage and transmit.  This was a big change with big ramifications … but more changes are coming.

On July 14th, 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a series of proposed changes to HIPAA in a notice in the Federal Register.  All comments on these proposed changes are due by September 13th, 2010, and the final rules will likely go into effect shortly thereafter.

With respect to electronic communications, there are several significant changes that will be happening.

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LuxSci SecureForm is an easy way to add or enhance security and functionality to online forms you use to collect important information. Receive the form data via secure email in a broad range of formats, and/or save it to a LuxSci Documents WebAide (encryption optional) for future access. Even receive notification via email or text message when new submissions arrive!

If you are in need of SecureForm, this video will answer many of your questions regarding how it works, for what it can be used, and how it is configured.

Watch Video: SecureForm Overview

LuxSci has added a new tool to its Document WebAides for downloading multiple CSV files in one merged file. This will aggregate data from all selected files, sorting alphabetically by column, and will automatically prompt you to download it once the merge is complete.

This feature is especially useful to SecureForm users who are storing form data in WebAides in CSV format and wish to download it all at once.

Look for the “Download Merged CSV” option in the Entries dropdown menu in the Document WebAides interface.

We are often approached by customers wanting to use their blackberry mobile devices to send and receive email that may contain electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI).  Such customers, when they must abide by the HIPAA and HITECH laws governing medical privacy, must comply with a long set of regulations that covers, among other things, how ePHI may be transmitted over the Internet.

This article deals with the security of sending and receiving email on a Blackberry configured for Internet email services (i.e. it does not apply to those connecting to an Blackberry Enterprise Server and Exchange).

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If you are in need of HIPAA-compliant email services, this video will answer many of your questions regarding how LuxSci’ secure email services apply to HIPAA and what is needed for a HIPAA-compliant account with LuxSci.

Watch Video: HIPAA-compliant email services at LuxSci

LuxSci has enhanced its automatic “spell checking as you type” features with improvements to the spell checking of plain text fields, like the subject lines of email messages, support tickets, the bodies of email messages and WebAide entries composed in plain text, etc.

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This latest tutorial video shows what SecureLine Escrow looks like to a recipient of an encrypted email message. It also demonstrates how SecureSend can be used by anyone with an email address to send a LuxSci SecureLine user a secure email message at anytime and for free.

Watch Video: SecureLine Escrow and SecureSend from an End User’s Perspective

LuxSci now provides account administrators with the option of having user passwords “expire” once they become “too old”.  Many organizations have internal policies requiring that users change their password periodically, such as every 90 days, every year, etc.  This new feature allows enforcement of such policies for users of LuxSci accounts.

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LuxSci’s SecureForm service enables you to quickly make your web site or PDF forms secure and HIPAA compliant. Receive the form data, including uploaded files, via secure email or download the data securely from LuxSci’s web interface.  It also supports insecure form posts and delivery, making the usual form-to-email process easy to setup and protected from form Spam.

Typically, when using SecureForm, your web or PDF form will post to a secure web site address (URL) that is provided by LuxSci in the LuxSci.com domain name.  I.e. something like “https://secureform.luxsci.com/perl/post/xxxxxxx”.  Once the form data is processed, the end user is redirected to a success or failure web page on your site (for web forms), or is shown a success or failure PDF that you provide (for PDF forms).  I.e. under most conditions, the end user will never see the domain name to which the form is posted.

For customers who wish to use their own web site URL for the secure form posts, perhaps something like “https://forms.yourdomain.com/perl/post/xxxxxxx”, LuxSci now has a solution that does not require getting a dedicated server!

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