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Case Study: Securely Send Medical Laboratory Results to Patients

Friday, May 4th, 2012

We count medical laboratories among our many customers. They process tests requested by doctors and send the results to the patients via email.

Medical laboratories, while not HIPAA covered entities themselves, are business associates with Hospitals and Doctors who are required to abide by HIPAA. By the “transitive” nature of the HIPAA privacy laws, such business associates must also take pains to abide by HIPAA security and privacy standards, to protect patient data and ensure confidentiality.

In order to send patients their results via email, these labs must use a HIPAA-complaint system that can send email to anyone with an email address. Enter LuxSci and its HIPAA-compliant SecureLine service.

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Tags: bulk mailing, hipaa, hipaa compliance, lab results, medical laboratory
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More and More Companies need HIPAA Compliance due to Changing Regulations

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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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Tags: hipaa, hipaa compliance, hitech
Posted in LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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