Tag: ePHI

What exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?

February 26, 2025

Performing daily business transactions and communications through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare providers, payers and suppliers. As a result, email has become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include: Interacting with patients Real time authorizations for medical services Transcribing, accessing […]

6 Email Marketing Best Practices for Healthcare

February 14, 2025

Email marketing can be a powerful tool for healthcare organizations, but it requires careful planning and execution because of compliance requirements for HIPAA marketing. In this blog post, we will discuss email marketing best practices to help healthcare marketers achieve their goals.  1. Define Your Campaign Goals The success of any email marketing campaign depends […]

What exactly is ePHI? Who has to worry about it? Where can it be safely located?

January 15, 2025

There is often a great deal of confusion and misinformation about what constitutes ePHI (electronic protected health information) and how to protect it under HIPAA requirements. Even once you understand ePHI and how it applies to you, the next question becomes, where is ePHI permitted? What is secure and what is not? In this post, […]

Healthcare Marketing: Are You HIPAA Compliant?

January 14, 2025

Healthcare marketing is essential to growing your business successfully, but when you work in a regulated space such as healthcare, there are serious HIPAA compliance considerations that must be adhered to. Whether responding to an online patient review or trying to increase patient engagement through marketing campaigns, misunderstandings in marketing best practices can lead to […]

HIPAA Compliance Checklist

January 11, 2025

Our HIPAA compliance checklist was designed to help organizations understand their obligations under the law. The checklist items are not a complete list, just a starting point for your compliance program. HIPAA requires a yearly risk analysis to identify new vulnerabilities. Any business process change or new technology usage introduces new risk into an organization’s […]