There are many ways to protect ePHI in email. HIPAA is technology-neutral and doesn’t make specific recommendations for how to protect email communications. This article explains the difference between a HIPAA-compliant email host and an email encryption gateway. These are just two of the options for securing email accounts.
Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications. It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation. There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation […]
As a healthcare provider, business owner, or educator, you need a way to communicate with clients, patients, customers, or colleagues who assume or require privacy and confidentiality of information. This may be a legal requirement for you as well. You need to be able to send and receive information securely, quickly, and easily. Using LuxSci’s […]
LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various bank and other security-conscious organizations that LuxSci “enforce the encryption of email when sent to those organizations email servers via TLS”. This is such a common request, that I wanted to explain what it means, why it is good, how LuxSci does this by default, and the extra step LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.
LuxSci has made significant improvements to the SecureLine end-to-end email encryption service that make it much easier to use. These include
