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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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Jump/Thumb Drives and PHI Don’t Mix

Friday, July 20th, 2012

It is very common for the staff of small and medium sized healthcare organizations to store patient data on USB Flash Drives (a.k.a. Jump Drives or Thumb Drives).  This is universally a bad idea and guarantees non-compliance with HIPAA.  Below, I will discuss why and suggest some alternatives to accomplish the same ends.

While this article discusses USB Flash drives in particular, the same arguments hold for all portable media — full sized USB hard drives, writable CDs and DVDs, laptops, etc.

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Tags: breach, dropbox, emr, emr/pm, ePHI, file storage, flash drive, google docs, hipaa, hipaa compliance, hipaa security rule, phi, usb drive
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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HIPAA 2010: HITECH Impact on Email and Web Outsourcing

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Surprise!  HIPAA has changed, gotten bigger, and grown teeth.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or The Obama Stimulus Bill), signed into law in February 2009, includes new, more comprehensive provisions for HIPAA. These provisions are in a section of the bill known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

For organizations that are already required to abide by HIPAA (i.e. the “Covered Entities” of HIPAA), HITECH adds the following requirements:

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Tags: 2010, arra, business associate, covered entity, email security, hipaa, hitech, obama stimulus, phi, privacy
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: HIPAA, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service

Monday, June 1st, 2009

High Volume EmailLuxSci’s High Volume Outbound Email Sending Service, released earlier this year, has been a notable success.  Our service permits the sending of legitimate bulk email messages and also provides reliable “smarthost” services.  However, the offering is restricted to SMTP services and does not include the many outbound email processing tools present in LuxSci’s Premium Email service.  I.e. see  LuxSci Outbound Email: 5 Sending Options Compared!

Since High Volume Mail was offered, we have had many requests to send HIPAA-compliant bulk outbound email, i.e. newsletters and notices that contain protected health information (PHI) .  In such cases, SecureLine should be used to encrypt the outbound email in a way that can be opened by any recipient, but which is still secure.  Unfortunately, integration with SecureLine is not a feature of our Basic High Volume service.

LuxSci has responded by releasing Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service.  This is essentially Premium Email hosting with:

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Tags: bulk mailing, high volume, hipaa, outbound email, phi, secureline, smtp
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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