April 20th, 2024

17 Questions To Ask Before Sending A HIPAA-Compliant Marketing Email

You’ve just been told that your email marketing program is putting your company at risk of violating HIPAA. What now? If you want to continuing using email to communicate with patients, you must implement HIPAA-compliant email marketing. Start by breaking down that goal into two components: becoming HIPAA compliant and achieving your HIPAA marketing objectives. […]

February 3rd, 2024

HIPAA Compliant Forms

When it comes to digital data collection, there is often a lot of uncertainty surrounding HIPAA compliant forms. Do Healthcare Websites Need HIPAA Compliant Forms? We often have customers ask if their website forms need to be HIPAA compliant. The short answer is that securing patient data is always recommended. You never know what types […]

January 30th, 2024

How to Tell If Someone Read Your Email: Read Receipts and Web Bugs

We’ve all been in this scenario: you send an important email to your boss or a client, and then you wait, stressed out and anxious to know if they received it and their response. Typically, you can request a read receipt when sending the message to confirm the email was received. Another method, HTML web […]

January 23rd, 2024

Opportunistic TLS vs Forced TLS for SMTP

Email sometimes seems like magic because of how quickly messages are transmitted across the internet. While the rapid delivery speeds justify this presumption, a lot must happen for an email to reach you. Email sending relies on a protocol called the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to make its way across the internet to your recipient’s […]

January 16th, 2024

How Can I Prove an Email was Sent to Me?

Almost everyone has been in this situation: someone claims to have sent you an email message, but you look in your inbox and don’t see it. As far as you know, you never got it. How can you prove an email was sent? How to Prove That an Email was Sent So, where do you […]