Forms are pervasive on healthcare websites; the number of forms associated with medical websites is growing exponentially as everyone is scrambling toward digital transformation. The goal of a paperless office seeks to optimize time spent processing applications and managing patient data, speeding up the process of making appointments and getting referrals, meeting meaningful use, etc. […]
HIPAA’s encryption requirements fall in a grey area. This is mainly due to two reasons: encryption is required when ‘deemed appropriate’, which means email encryption is not absolutely necessary and ‘mutual consent’ can be used in place of encryption. there are a number of ‘addressable requirements’ pertaining to the technical safeguards as far as ePHI […]
Many organizations, especially in the healthcare industry, have an urgent need to send important and sensitive information, like protected health information (what constitutes PHI?), to organizations via FAX (facsimile). Why? Because this is how it has always been done, and everyone is “set up” to be able to handle FAXes quickly and efficiently. Go back […]
When health care organizations review their operations to see where electronic protected health information (ePHI) is being saved, transmitted, and viewed, a great deal of time is spent on the obvious candidates: email, chat, stored files, and health records, etc. Many overlook the fact that ePHI can be embedded in Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks. Consider […]
While use of mobile devices and tablets in medical situations is pervasive; HIPAA compliant synchronization and storage of such information is often seriously lacking. Everyone knows email can contain ePHI, but calendar appointments, address books, and task lists can and do contain just as much ePHI and their secure use must be strictly enforced. LuxSci’s WebAide collaboration […]
