Customer feedback is extremely important to LuxSci and we have listened once again. Customers faced with the need for HIPAA-compliant email now have the option to decide on a per-message basis which messages need encryption (e.g. contain Protected Health Information – PHI) and which do not. Routine non-PHI-laden correspondence no longer needs to be encrypted and users […]
You are proactive and security conscious. You use end-to-end encryption software, like PGP or S/MIME or LuxSci SecureLine, to send your sensitive messages to their destinations, ensuring that the message content is encrypted the entire way … because otherwise, email is just plain insecure. Oh – but what about the copies of these messages saved […]
It is very common for the staff of small and medium sized healthcare organizations to store patient data on USB Flash Drives (a.k.a. Jump Drives or Thumb Drives). This is universally a bad idea and guarantees non-compliance with HIPAA. Below, I will discuss why and suggest some alternatives to accomplish the same ends. While this article […]
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 […]
