When it comes to digital data collection, there is often a lot of uncertainty surrounding HIPAA compliant forms. Do Healthcare Websites Need HIPAA Compliant Forms? We often have customers ask if their website forms need to be HIPAA compliant. The short answer is that securing patient data is always recommended. You never know what types […]
Secure email sending is a priority for organizations that communicate sensitive data externally. One of the most common ways to send secure emails is with SMTP TLS. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and is the successor of SSL (Secure Socket Layer). TLS is one of the standard ways that computers on the internet transmit […]
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 […]
Our latest “Ask Erik” question involves understanding what email headers save about secure message transport … especially when they list MAPI or HTTPS instead of TLS.
For legal reasons, LuxSci’s HIPAA customers must physically sign a “Business Associate Agreement” and return it to us. While this is a simple and commonplace request, it creates a lot of busy work for the customer and LuxSci! The customer might have to Download the file Print out the 19 pages Sign the agreement Fax […]
