If you send emails for marketing purposes, appointment reminders, or any other business transactions, it’s easy to get complacent and think that there is no way that you could be violating HIPAA. Unfortunately, HIPAA laws are incredibly complex and there are a number of unexpected violations that you can make without even realizing it. Using […]
Have you ever sent an email message and then wondered: Did they open your email message? Did they click on any of the links that you included? Which links? Was the message forwarded on and opened by other people? When did they read it? Typical email marketing platforms, like LuxSci’s Spotlight […]
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a way in which email travels across the internet with SMTP relaying. An SMTP relay is a mail server that passes on your email message to another server that can transfer your message to the intended recipient. Email providers like Gmail own and manage SMTP servers; some allow you […]
HIPAA’s encryption requirements fall in a grey area. This is mainly due to two reasons: encryption is required when ‘deemed appropriate’, which means email encryption is not absolutely necessary and ‘mutual consent’ can be used in place of encryption. there are a number of ‘addressable requirements’ pertaining to the technical safeguards as far as ePHI […]
LuxSci automatically tracks the delivery status for all email messages sent via SMTP, WebMail, and the LuxSci API. This report indicates whether or not the messages were successfully delivered to each recipient’s email servers, if they failed to be accepted there for some reason, or they are still queued at LuxSci. For many purposes, this […]
