Posts Tagged ‘phi’
Wednesday, January 20th, 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 (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 »
Tags: 2010, arra, business associate, covered entity, email security, hipaa, hitech, obama stimulus, phi, privacy
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: HIPAA, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
6 Comments »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
 LuxSci’s High Volume Outbound Email Sending Service, released earlier this year, has been a notable success. Our service permits the sending of legitimate bulk email messages and also provides reliable “smarthost” services. However, the offering is restricted to SMTP services and does not include the many outbound email processing tools present in LuxSci’s Premium Email service. I.e. see LuxSci Outbound Email: 5 Sending Options Compared!
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 »
Tags: bulk mailing, high volume, hipaa, outbound email, phi, secureline, smtp
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
 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 short answer is “BCC is not good enough“. For the long answer, read on.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: bcc, blind carbon copy, hipaa, newsletter, phi, privacy
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: HIPAA
No comments »
Monday, 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:
- Interacting with web-savvy patients;
- Real time authorizations for medical services;
- Transcribing, accessing and storing health records;
- Appointment scheduling; and
- Submitting claims to health plan payers for payment of the services provided.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: access control, addressable, audit controls, authentication, covered entities, email security, email security rule, encryption, ePHI, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, heathhealthcare, hipaa, integrity, phi, privacy, protected health information
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: HIPAA, TechNotes
9 Comments »
Friday, March 6th, 2009
LuxSci offers solutions for secure and HIPAA compliant email and web services, so we are often asked about secure FAXing.
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?
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: document, facsimile, fax, hipaa, hipaa compliant, hipaa security, phi, phone, protected health information, Safeguards Principle, secure, secure fax
Posted in LuxSci Library: HIPAA, TechNotes
3 Comments »
|
 |
|
Email updates:
