Tag: hitech

What exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?

February 26, 2025

Performing daily business transactions and communications through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare providers, payers and suppliers. As a result, email has become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include: Interacting with patients Real time authorizations for medical services Transcribing, accessing […]

HIPAA 2010: HITECH Impact on Email and Web Outsourcing

January 20, 2010

Surprise!  HIPAA has changed, gotten bigger, and grown teeth. 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 […]