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. […]
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 […]
A new security feature is available for LuxSci WebMail customers. Account administrators now have the option to implement time-based access controls for their users. Administrators can restrict what times of day and what days of the week individual users are permitted to use the LuxSci web interface (for WebMail, administration, or other tasks) to increase […]
GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation which asserts and enforces protections on the personal information of EU citizens is on everyone’s minds these days. This is because it impacts any company anywhere in the world that interacts with citizens of the European Union (EU), even if that only means sending email messages to them. The kicker […]
