Microsoft Teams is a unified communication platform with workplace chat, video conferencing, and file-sharing tools. It’s a popular program for internal workplace communications. However, healthcare organizations may wonder if they can use it while complying with HIPAA. Microsoft Teams is designed to work with Microsoft 365 and additional Microsoft products. As readers of this blog […]
Next up in our series on patient education and engagement, we look at ways to encourage preventative healthcare with digital technologies. Vaccines and Flu Shot Information It’s challenging to encourage individuals to get a yearly flu shot. There are many reasons that people do not get annual flu shots. Some of these reasons include: […]
HIPAA compliant email marketing is one of the most effective ways to communicate with patients. However, health care providers have long avoided it because of HIPAA concerns related to any form of HIPAA marketing. In this article, we will provide a few examples of how to use email marketing to engage patients and increase ROI. […]
There are many ways to protect ePHI in email. HIPAA is technology-neutral and doesn’t make specific recommendations for how to protect email communications. This article explains the difference between a HIPAA-compliant email host and an email encryption gateway. These are just two of the options for securing email accounts.
When setting up a new website, users must decide how it will be hosted. In this article, we discuss some of the options with a special focus on HIPAA compliance.
