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What exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?

Friday, August 30th, 2013

Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications and email have become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include:

  • Interacting with web-savvy patients;
  • Real time authorizations for medical services;
  • Transcribing, accessing and storing health records;
  • Appointment scheduling;
  • Referring patients; and
  • Submitting claims to health plan payers for payment of the services provided.

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Tags: access control, addressable, audit controls, authentication, covered entities, email security, email security rule, encryption, ePHI, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, heathhealthcare, hipaa, hitech, integrity, omnibus, phi, privacy, protected health information
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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Do Law Firms have Data Security Liability?

Friday, July 19th, 2013

As of 2010, 91% of all law firms have 10 or fewer employees; 99.6% have less than 100 employees1.  The smaller the firm, the less likely they are to have a strong IT department and are much more likely to be focused on case load rather than on current changes in the compliance landscape that are now impacting them.  Indeed, one of the largest segments of new law firms are small practices run by folks that have left larger firms … and such folks arguably have less time to spend on such considerations with the amount of legal work per lawyer in the United States becoming increasingly less.

Email and messaging — more and more information is sent digitally.  For the legal profession, this is also increasingly true due to the time saving nature of such communications, the high time cost associated with legal work, and the ever-present push to get things done faster.

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Tags: compliance, data security, encryption, hipaa, law, legal, privacy, security
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Ensuring all data is encrypted at rest with LuxSci

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Email and other data are either being “transmitted” or “processed” or are “at rest.” I.e., it is moving from one computer to another, stored/at rest on a computer, or preparing to be transmitted or stored.

While most types of compliance regulation, such as HIPAA, specifically require that data be transmitted securely, not all regulations require that data be stored in an encrypted form while at rest. I.e., HIPAA does not require at-rest encryption, though it is recommended to decrease risk and potential liability in some situations.

Having your email and other data encrypted while at rest can potentially increase the security of that data, even if that level of security is not explicitly required. As a result, many LuxSci customers have asked how to ensure that all of their email and other data are encrypted while at rest.

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Tags: at rest, cache, decrypt, encrypt, encryption, hipaa, pgp, s/mime, secureform, secureline, security, sent mail, smtp, tls, transmission, webmail
Posted in LuxSci Library: HIPAA, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email, Secure Form
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HIPAA Compliant Email – You Decide Which Messages Need Encryption

Friday, November 16th, 2012

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 no longer have to use separate users or profiles to send regular email messages.

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Tags: auditor, compliance, encryption, hipaa, hipaa compliance, opt out, phi, webmail
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: HIPAA, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Encrypting Sent Email — An Often Overlooked Part of End-to-End Encryption

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

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 to your “Sent Email” folders?  Are they encrypted or secure?  Should they be?

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Tags: backups, certificate, draft, encryption, escrow, hard drive, insecure, pgp, s/mime, secureline, sent email
Posted in LuxSci Library: HIPAA, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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