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Posts Tagged ‘hipaa’HIPAA Compliance Seal for your Web Site or EmailThursday, February 11th, 2010LuxSci customers who require HIPAA Compliance to safeguard electronic protected health information (ePHI) that is stored in or transmitted through their accounts can now display a “HIPAA Compliance Seal” on their web sites or in their email signatures/tag lines/disclaimers. For example, your compliance seal may look like (click on it to see an example verification page): HIPAA HITECH Business Associate Agreement and LuxSci Account RequirementsSaturday, January 30th, 2010
In response to these changes and to ensure that both LuxSci and its HIPAA customers are HIPAA-compliant:
LuxSci will be contacting customers that it believes might need to sign a BAA and ARA during the month of February. However, as LuxSci does not know which customers are using their account(s) for storage or transmission of ePHI, it is up to our customers to contact LuxSci to establish a BAA. See: Security and HIPAA Changes Coming Soon to LuxSciWednesday, January 20th, 2010Read the rest of this post » HIPAA 2010: HITECH Impact on Email and Web OutsourcingWednesday, January 20th, 2010
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or The Obama Stimulus Bill), signed into law in February 2009, includes new, more comprehensive provisions for HIPAA. These provisions are in a section of the bill known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). For organizations that are already required to abide by HIPAA (i.e. the “Covered Entities” of HIPAA), HITECH adds the following requirements:
Read the rest of this post » Premium High Volume Outbound Email ServiceMonday, June 1st, 2009
Since High Volume Mail was offered, we have had many requests to send HIPAA-compliant bulk outbound email, i.e. newsletters and notices that contain protected health information (PHI) . In such cases, SecureLine should be used to encrypt the outbound email in a way that can be opened by any recipient, but which is still secure. Unfortunately, integration with SecureLine is not a feature of our Basic High Volume service. LuxSci has responded by releasing Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service. This is essentially Premium Email hosting with:
Read the rest of this post » Does sending email using BCC make it HIPAA Compliant?Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The short answer is “BCC is not good enough“. For the long answer, read on.
Read the rest of this post » Recipe: Completely Secure Collection of Web Form Data using SSL and PGP or S/MIMETuesday, March 17th, 2009
Why would this high level of security and privacy be necessary? There are many cases where they are essential; some of these include:
Read the rest of this post » What HIPAA Says about Email SecurityMonday, March 16th, 2009
Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is an accepted, reliable and necessary tool across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications have become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include:
Is a FAX document HIPAA-Secure?Friday, March 6th, 2009
Many organizations, especially in the healthcare industry, have an urgent need to send important and sensitive information, like protected health information (PHI), to organizations via facsimile. Why? Because this is how it has always been done, and everyone is “set up” to be able to handle FAXes quickly and efficiently. However, with HIPAA security regulations ever-present, our clients are concerned that their use of FAX is compliant, similar to making sure that their email and web sites meet HIPAA security standards. Update – for electronic FAXing options, see: HIPAA Faxing: How to Send and Receive FAXes i na Secure and Compliant Way. Can data sent via FAX be “secure enough” for HIPAA?Receive Secure Emails from AnyoneMonday, February 9th, 2009
Solution?With the LuxSci’s SecureLine SecureSend Portal, anyone with an email address can easily send any LuxSci SecureLine user secure emails for free.
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People have asked us if sending an email to someone via BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) is HIPAA-compliant. For example, a doctor’s office sending a newsletter to its patients via BCC. The presumption is that because when a message is sent via BCC, the recipient’s email address is not visible in the message that there is no way to identify the individual(s) to whom the message was sent and thus the messages do not contain any “personally identifiable health information” that is protected by HIPAA.
The situation: your organization needs to collect information from clients through from(s) on your web site, but that information is sensitive. So, you need to be absolutely sure that the information is transferred from the users of your web site to you in as secure a fashion as possible. This means that
Guaranteeing that information sent via email remains confidential can be a tricky business. Whether you’re in health care governed by 
