A typical organization sends at least two distinct classes of email messages: business emails and marketing emails. Business email consists of all of the individual, personal messages sent by sales, support, billing and other departments to specific people. These messages are generally more time sensitive and it is very important that the recipients actually receive […]

Email and text messaging are among the most common forms of business communication. However, if you are sending ePHI, regular texts and emails are off limits! If you are subject to HIPAA regulations, you will need mutual consent from your patients before sending ePHI insecurely via these methods. This may seem frustrating because text and […]

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 marketing objectives. Setting up […]

Starting April 5, 2021, information blocking will no longer be allowed thanks to changes that were kicked off by 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act. In short, information blocking involves interfering with the exchange, access, or use of electronic health information. There are many ways information can be “blocked,” but the term broadly refers to improperly […]

Last week, the LuxSci team attended the Virtual 30th National HIPAA Summit. The conference featured government and industry leaders who led sessions on updates to HIPAA rules, ongoing threats to cybersecurity, the impacts of remote work, and many other topics. We can’t touch on every session that took place over the four days of the […]