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LuxSci vs. Paubox: How to Choose the Right HIPAA-Compliant Email Provider

LuxSci vs. Paubox

Choosing the right HIPAA-compliant email vendor is crucial for protecting patient data and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations, including verifying HIPAA compliance and security features, evaluating ease of use and integration capabilities, assessing deliverability and performance, and understanding pricing and scalability. You should also evaluate a vendor’s customer support and company reputation.

 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) details strict guidelines for securing sensitive patient data, including Protected Health Information (PHI). As a result, healthcare providers, payers, and suppliers must use a HIPAA-compliant email provider to abide by regulations designed to safeguard PHI.

 

With this in mind, this post evaluates two of today’s most popular HIPAA-compliant email providers on the market: LuxSci and Paubox. We’ll compare the two HIPAA-compliant offerings on several criteria, helping you to decide which email provider best fits the needs of your organization.

LuxSci vs. Paubox: Evaluation Criteria

We will evaluate LuxSci vs. Paubox on the following criteria:

 

  • Data security and Compliance: how well each email provider safeguards PHI as per HIPAA’s requirements 
  • Performance and Scalability: the platform’s ability to conduct bulk email marketing campaigns, and scale them as a company’s engagement efforts grow.
  • Infrastructure: if it provides the necessary technical infrastructure, processes and controls to both protect sensitive patient data and support high-volume email marketing campaigns.
  • Marketing Capabilities: if the platform provides tools for optimizing and refining your communication strategies.
  • Ease of Use: how steep the learning curve is for each platform.
  • Other HIPAA-Compliant Products: if the email provider offers complementary features that will aid your patient engagement efforts. 

Now that we’ve explained the parameters by which we’ll be comparing the HIPAA compliant email providers, let’s see how LuxSci and Paubox stack up against each other. 

LuxSci vs. Paubox: How They Compare

Data Security and Compliance

Both LuxSci and Paubox perform admirably here, with both being fully HIPAA-compliant email providers, offering automated encryption that allows you to include PHI in email communications straight away. Both providers secure email data both in transit and at rest.

 

Additionally, both are HITRUST certified, which further demonstrates a strong commitment to data privacy and security.

 

When compared to Paubox, LuxSci has the edge here because it has more comprehensive encryption options. This includes highly flexible encryption: automatically setting the ideal level of security and encryption needs based on the email content, recipient and business process.

 

Performance and Scalability

While both email providers deliver proven solutions and enable healthcare companies to scale their email marketing campaigns accordingly, LuxSci is the better option for high-volume email marketing campaigns, including bulk sending of hundreds of thousands to millions of emails per month. This is due to the fact that LuxSci specializes in assisting large healthcare organizations with executing high volume email marketing campaigns, including companies like Athenahealth, 1800 Contacts, Eurofins, and Rotech medical equipment. Consequently, LuxSci offers enterprise-grade scalability and has developed robust solutions capable of the high throughput required for enterprise-level patient and customer engagement efforts.

  

Infrastructure

Additionally, when it comes to other aspects related to infrastructure, LuxSci demonstrates an advantage. Firstly, they offer secure email hosting, while Paubox does not. Additionally, though Paubox can provide some dedicated infrastructure, e.g., single-tenancy, options, as well as high availability and disaster recovery, their capabilities are not as comprehensive as LuxSci.

 

Marketing capabilities

Both email delivery platforms possess useful marketing tools, enabling more effective HIPAA-compliant email marketing. This includes automation for streamlining email marketing campaigns and, customization options, so your messages are both more compelling and align with your company’s branding.

 

LuxSci, however, offers more comprehensive reporting capabilities than Paubox, including real-time monitoring, detailed performance metrics (e.g., deliverability, open and click-through rates, bounced emails, spam complaints, and recipient domain reporting), as well as granular segmentation options.

 

Ease of use

Paubox has the edge here, being the easier of the two HIPAA-compliant email providers to deploy and for staff to get to ramp up on. Suited for more complex and sophisticated environments, LuxSci offsets this with exemplary customer support honed from decades of facilitating organizations’ HIPAA-compliant email marketing campaigns – especially for this on a large scale.

 

Other HIPAA-compliant Products

Lastly, when it comes to complementary features, both LuxSci and Paubox offer secure texting functionality, allowing healthcare companies to cater to their patients and customers who prefer to communicate via SMS. And while both email providers feature secure forms for HIPAA-compliant data collection, LuxSci’s forms are more advanced, capable of handling more complex workflows, including multi-step data collection, and providing better customization options.

 

Additionally, LuxSci offers secure file sharing, encrypting files at rest and in transit, allowing for even more granular access controls, and ensuring only those within your company who must handle PHI have the appropriate access permissions. This is yet another safeguard against the exposure of PHI, whether accidentally, through identity theft (e.g., session-hijacking by a cybercriminal), or even corporate espionage. 

Get Your Copy of LuxSci’s Vendor Comparison Guide

While this post focuses on comparing  LuxSci and Paubox, we have created a complete Vendor Comparison Guide, which compares 12 email providers and is packed full of essential information on HIPAA-compliant communication and how to choose the best healthcare email solution for your organization.

 

You can grab your copy here, and don’t hesitate to contact us to explore your options for HIPAA-compliant email further.

 

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Why Healthcare Insurers Should Send Explanation of Benefits Statements Via Email

Explanation of Benefits statements or EOBs are mission-critical communications for health insurers because they ensure transparency, help detect billing errors or fraud, and most importantly, keep patients informed about their benefits and related payments.

 

However, the most conventional method of sending out EoBs, traditional mail, has several drawbacks that can prevent important information about healthcare coverage from reaching the intended recipient. This can leave policyholders in the dark about their healthcare coverage, which can lead to confusion and dissatisfaction with their insurance provider when they receive an unexpected medical bill. This can also drive up inbound calls into your claims department or contact center.

 

Because Explanation of Benefits statements contain the protected health information (PHI) of policyholders, insurers are bound by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations to ensure their secure delivery. Consequently, the risks inherent to sending paper EoB statements in the mail not only have security implications but also potential consequences for non-compliance.

 

With all this in mind, this post discusses why healthcare insurers should send EoBs to their policyholders via secure email instead of traditional mail. We detail the various benefits of making the switch to electronic EoBs, which include enhanced security, better adherence to compliance regulations, and the opportunity to save millions of dollars per month.

 

Protecting Patient Privacy

The primary reason that insurance companies should shift to email EoBs as opposed to traditional mail is that it’s far more secure. Sending an EoB via email drastically decreases the risk of protected health information (PHI) getting into the wrong hands. When sent in paper form by mail, an EoB could be:

 

  • Lost, stolen or damaged in transit
  • Delivered to the wrong address
  • Not properly deposited in a letter or mailbox, then stolen
  • Intercepted within the intended address by another individual who lives at or has access to the residence. 

As detailed later in this post, email also allows for various controls and processes, which mitigate the risks of unsuccessful message delivery.

 

Most importantly, secure email provides data encryption, which safeguards the sensitive patient data within EoBs during transmission and when stored by rendering it unreadable to malicious actors who might intercept it. Physical mail, in contrast, offers no such protection, as someone who intercepts a paper EoB form can simply open it and freely read its contents.

 

Finally, secure email delivery platforms feature identity verification and access controls that enable healthcare insurers to restrict access to PHI to authorized personnel, limiting its exposure. They also provide auditing capabilities to track access to patient data, and quickly identify the source of security breaches.

HIPAA Compliance Benefits

Because sending an Explanation of Benefits statement via email is more secure, and better protects any patient data contained within them, this also reduces the risk of HIPAA compliance violations.

 

First and foremost, HIPAA regulations mandate that communications containing PHI, such as EoBs, must securely reach the intended recipient. By eliminating the risk of physical interception or non-delivery, and the compliance violations from a resulting security breach, insurers can better adhere to HIPAA regulations using email for sending EOBs. On a similar note, the security features built into a HIPAA compliant email platform, such as encryption, access controls, and audit logs, help insurers to satisfy the requirements of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules in their compliance efforts.

 

Another considerable benefit of using secure email to send policyholders their EoBs, or, in fact, any communication containing PHI, is that it’s far easier to implement breach notification protocols. Email delivery platforms provide real-time tracking, so companies can pinpoint email message failures quickly and act accordingly. Similarly, intrusion detection systems and other cybersecurity measures that support email systems can enable faster detection and containment of data breaches.

 

In stark contrast, physical mail is far more difficult to track – and even those limited capabilities are reserved for more expensive delivery options. Consequently, security breaches via mail could go unnoticed for days or even weeks. If you’re unaware of a data breach, or have not yet contained or mitigated it, you’re then unable to inform all affected parties, resulting in further HIPAA violations.

Increased Deliverability Rates

By greatly mitigating the security risks presented by physical mail, i.e., the various ways an EoB could fall into the wrong hands, sending an EoB by email increases your ability to get more EOBs into the hands of policyholders, more quickly. At the same time, policyholders can make faster decisions regarding their healthcare.

The ability to track secure email gives you greater control over EOB deliverability, as it allows organizations to determine the cause of delivery failure and can also make subsequent attempts. Additionally, the process of determining the reason for the message delivery failures can also reveal security issues; the same process, however, is very difficult to achieve with traditional mail.

 

Here’s how the typical protocol for resending a secured email goes beyond what you can do with managing traditional mail delivery:

 

  • Determine the cause of non-delivery: verify that the intended recipient information is correct and check for issues like a full email inbox or security misconfigurations. 
  • Don’t automatically resend: to avoid exposing PHI to the wrong person, confirm the intended recipient’s email address through an alternative verified channel, e.g., phone call, secure SMS, etc. 
  • Log the incident: document the delivery failure, steps taken to determine its cause, attempts, etc.
  • Reattempt message delivery: if the investigation deems it safe, attempt message redelivery with the corrected information. 

In the event that subsequent delivery attempts fail, it’s best practice to contact the individual to arrange the most convenient and secure alternative to deliver their EoBs. 

Cost Savings 

Simply put, sending Explanation of Benefits statements via email instead of traditional mail saves health insurers money – potentially lots of it. Processing EOBs from start to finish can cost health insurers one to two dollars or more per EOB. That’s a lot. The biggest opportunity for cost reduction is tied to the money saved on printing and mailing paper EoB statements. Additionally, the cost of administering the delivery of EoB forms, ensuring their delivery, etc., is lowered when it’s done electronically. Not to mention, resending EoBs in the event of their non-delivery is much easier and cheaper via email.

 

In a broader sense, increasing the deliverability and the success rate of sending EoBs helps a larger number of policyholders better understand the details of their insurance coverage, i.e., how it works, which services and procedures it covers, etc. As a result of their policyholders being more informed, insurers won’t spend as much time explaining policy details and cost breakdowns to their members, allowing them to divert the otherwise required resources to other areas of the business.  

Reduced Carbon Footprint

Finally, it’s difficult to highlight the benefits of sending EoBs to policyholders by email without recognizing the positive environmental impact, too. Email EoBs cut down on paper, for both the forms themselves and the envelopes they’re mailed in. Then there’s the matter of the electricity and ink involved in printing them, the emissions produced in their delivery, etc. Opting to send EoBs via email reduces all these factors, which enables healthcare organizations to lower their carbon footprint and, where applicable, meet their sustainability obligations or goals. 

Deliver EoBs More Securely, Reliably, and at Lower Cost with LuxSci

LuxSci’s Secure High Volume Email Solution enables healthcare insurance companies to instantly send Explanation of Benefits statements to policyholders at a massive scale, extending into hundreds of thousands or millions per month.

 

Our HIPAA compliant email delivery platform features:

 

  • Dedicated IPs that isolate critical transactional messages, such as EoBs, from other email traffic, allowing LuxSci customers to reach deliverability rates of 98% or more. 
  • Real-time tracking for determining the delivery status of EoBs, as well as troubleshooting unsuccessful delivery attempts.
  • Flexible encryption through LuxSci’s proprietary SecureLine Technology, which automatically adjusts encryption settings according to the recipient to better ensure the protection of sensitive data.

Contact us today to learn more about how your organization can begin the transition to electronic EoBs.

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Know the Biggest Email Threats Facing Healthcare Right Now

Due to its near-universal adoption, speed, and cost-effectiveness, email remains one of the most common communication channels in healthcare. Consequently, it’s one of the most frequent targets for cyber attacks, as malicious actors are acutely aware of the vast amounts of sensitive data contained in messages – and standard email communication’s inherent vulnerabilities.

 

In light of this, healthcare organizations must remain aware of the evolving email threat landscape, and implement effective strategies to protect the electronic protected health information (ePHI) included in email messages. Failing to properly secure email communications jeopardizes patient data privacy, which can disrupt operations, result in costly HIPAA compliance violations, and, most importantly, compromise the quality of their patients’ healthcare provision.

 

With all this in mind, this post details the biggest email threats faced by healthcare organizations today, with the greatest potential to cause your business or practice harm by compromising patient and company data. You can also get our 2025 report on the latest email threats, which includes strategies on how to overcome them.

Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts, corrupts, or deletes a healthcare organization’s data or critical systems, and enables the cybercriminals that deployed it to demand a payment (i.e., a ransom) for their restoration. Healthcare personnel can unwittingly download ransomware onto their devices by opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a link contained in an email.

In recent years, ransomware has emerged as the email security threat with the most significant financial impact. In 2024, for instance, there were over 180 confirmed ransomware attacks with an average paid ransom of nearly $1 million. 

Email Client Misconfiguration

While a healthcare organization may implement email security controls, many fail to know the security gaps of their current email service provider (ESP) or understand the value of a HIPAA compliant email platform, leaving data vulnerable to email threats, such as unauthorized access and ePHI exposure, and also, subsequently, a greater risk of compliance violations and reputation damage.


 

Common types of email misconfiguration include:

 

  • Lack of enforced TLS encryption: resulting in emails being transmitted in plaintext, rendering the patient data they contain readable by cybercriminals in the event of interception during transit.
  • Improper SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup: failure to configure or align these email authentication protocols correctly gives malicious actors greater latitude to successfully spoof trusted domains.
  • Disabled or lax user authentication: a lack of authentication measures, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), increases the risk of unauthorized access and ePHI exposure.
  • Misconfigured secure email gateways: incorrect rules or filtering policies can allow phishing emails through or block legitimate messages.
  • Outdated or unsupported email client software: simply neglecting to download and apply the latest updates or patches from the email client’s vendor can leave vulnerabilities, which are well-known to cybercriminals, exposed to attack.

Social Engineering Attacks

A social engineering attack involves a malicious actor deceiving or convincing healthcare employees into granting unauthorized access or exposing patient data. Relying on psychological manipulation, social engineering attacks exploit a person’s trust, urgency, fear, or curiosity, and encompass an assortment of threats, including phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, which are covered in greater depth below.

Phishing

As mentioned above, phishing is a type of social engineering attack, but they are so widespread that it warrants its own mention. Phishing sees malicious actors impersonating legitimate companies, or their employees, to trick victims into revealing sensitive patient data. 

Subsequently, healthcare organizations can be subjected to several different types of phishing attacks, which include:

 

  • General phishing: otherwise known as bulk phishing or simply ‘phishing’, these are broad, generic attacks where emails are sent to large numbers of recipients, impersonating trusted entities to steal credentials or deliver malware. 
  • Spear phishing: more targeted attacks that involve personalized phishing emails crafted for a specific healthcare organization or individual. These require more research on the part of malicious actors and typically use relevant insider details gleaned from their reconnaissance for additional credibility.
  • Whaling: a form of spear phishing that specifically targets healthcare executives or other high-level employees. 
  • Clone phishing:  when a cybercriminal duplicates a legitimate email that was previously received by the target, replacing links or attachments with malicious ones.
  • Credential phishing: also known as ‘pharming’, this involves emails that link to fake login pages designed to capture healthcare employees’ usernames and passwords under the guise of frequently used legitimate services.

Domain Impersonation and Spoofing

This category of threat revolves around making malicious messages appear legitimate, which can allow them to bypass basic email security checks. As alluded to above, these attacks exploit weaknesses in email client misconfigurations to trick the recipient, typically to expose and exfiltrate patient data, steal employee credentials, or distribute malware.

 

Domain spoofing email threats involve altering the “From” address in an email header to make it appear to be from a legitimate domain. If a healthcare organization fails to properly configure authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, there’s a greater risk of their email servers failing to flag malicious messages and allowing them to land in users’ inboxes.

 

Domain impersonation, on the other hand, requires cybercriminals to register a domain that closely resembles a legitimate one. This may involve typosquatting, e.g., using “paypa1.com” instead of “paypal.com”. Alternatively, a hacker may utilize a homograph attack, which substitutes visually similar characters, e.g., from different character sets, such as Cyrillic. Malicious actors will then send emails from these fraudulent domains, which often have the ability to bypass basic email filters because they aren’t exact matches for blacklisted domains. Worse still, such emails can appear authentic to users, particularly if the attacker puts in the effort to accurately mimic the branding, formatting, and tone used by the legitimate entity they’re attempting to impersonate. 

Insider Email Threats

In addition to external parties, employees within a healthcare organization can pose email threats to the security of its PHI. On one hand, insider threats can be intentional, involving disgruntled employees or third-party personnel abusing their access privileges to steal or corrupt patient data. Alternatively, they could be the result of mere human error or negligence, stemming from ignorance, or even fatigue.

 

What’s more, insider threats have been exacerbated by the rise of remote and flexible conditions since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has created more complex IT infrastructures that are more difficult to manage and control.  

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

A BEC attack is a highly targeted type of social engineering attack in which cybercriminals gain access to, or copy, a legitimate email account to impersonate a known and trusted individual within an organization. BEC attacks typically require extensive research on the targeted healthcare company and rely less on malicious links or attachments, unlike phishing, which can make them difficult to detect.

 

Due to the high volume of emails transmitted within the healthcare industry, and the sensitive nature of PHI often included in communications to patients and between organizations, the healthcare industry is a consistent target of BEC attacks.

 

BEC attacks come in several forms, such as:

 

  • Account compromise: hijacking a real employee’s account and sending fraudulent messages.
  • Executive fraud: impersonating high-ranking personnel to request urgent financial transactions or access to sensitive data.
  • Invoice fraud: pretending to be a vendor asking for the payment of a fraudulent invoice into an account under their control.

Supply Chain Risk

Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on third-party vendors, including cloud service providers, software vendors, and billing or payment providers to serve their patients and customers. They constantly communicate with their supply chain partners via email, with some messages containing sensitive patient data; moreover, some of these organizations will have various levels of access to the PHI under their care.

 

Consequently, undetected vulnerabilities or lax security practices within your supply chain network could serve as entry points for email threats and malicious action. For instance, cybercriminals can compromise the email servers of a healthcare company’s third-party vendor or partner, and then send fraudulent emails from their domains to deploy malware or extract patient data.

 

Another, somewhat harrowing, way to understand supply chain risk is that while your organization may have a robust email security posture, in reality, it’s only as strong as that of your weakest third-party vendor’s security controls.

Download LuxSci’s Email Cyber Threat Readiness Report

To gain further insight into the biggest email threats to healthcare companies in 2025, including increasingly prevalent AI threats, download your copy of LuxSci’s Email Cyber Threat Readiness Report

 

You’ll also learn about the upcoming changes to the HIPAA Security Rule and how it’s set to impact your organization going forward, and the most effective strategies for strengthening your email security posture.

 

Grab your copy of the report here and begin the journey to strengthening your company’s email threat readiness today.

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What is the Best HIPAA Compliant Email?

The best HIPAA compliant email contains strong security features with ease of use and reasonable pricing. Top options include properly configured Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 accounts with Business Associate Agreements in place. Look at HIPAA compliant email platforms that offer encryption, access controls, audit logging, and secure mobile access while fitting their practice size, budget, and technical capabilities.

HIPAA Compliant Email Features

Healthcare professionals require email systems with particular security capabilities to protect client communications. Any HIPAA compliant email must include automatic encryption that works without requiring clients to create accounts or remember passwords. You need detailed access logs that document when messages were sent, received, and viewed. Message recall capabilities help address accidental disclosures before they become compliance issues. Calendar integration supports secure appointment scheduling and reminders. Mobile access controls ensure therapists can communicate safely from smartphones and tablets during off-hours or between office locations. Document sharing features allow secure exchange of intake forms and treatment plans. These capabilities help therapists maintain compliant communications while managing their practice efficiently.

Popular HIPAA Compliant Email Platforms

Several email providers offer solutions well-suited to mental health professionals. Hushmail for Healthcare includes features designed for therapists with web-based secure forms for client intake and customizable email templates. Paubox delivers encrypted email that works without requiring recipients to take extra steps, making it ideal for client communications. Virtru integrates with existing Gmail or Outlook accounts to add HIPAA compliant protections without changing email addresses. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 provide affordable options when properly configured with appropriate security settings and covered by Business Associate Agreements. Smaller therapy practices often prefer these mainstream platforms for their familiarity and integration with other practice tools.

Security Considerations for Healthcare Communications

Secure healthcare communications require thoughtful security approaches due to their sensitive nature. HIPAA compliant email should include protections against phishing attacks that might target patient information. Data loss prevention tools identify and secure messages containing sensitive information even when users forget to enable encryption. Account recovery procedures must balance security with practicality for small practices. Multi-factor authentication prevents unauthorized access even if passwords are compromised.

For example, healthcare personnel handling substance use disorder information need email systems that comply with both HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 requirements. Solutions should accommodate supervision relationships where communications may need controlled sharing with supervisors.

Client Experience and Usability Factors

The best HIPAA compliant email solutions balance security with positive client experiences. Buyers should evaluate how encryption affects the client’s process for reading and responding to messages. Some solutions require clients to create accounts or install software, while others deliver protected messages that open with minimal friction. Mobile compatibility matters as many clients prefer communicating from smartphones. Branding options allow therapists to maintain professional appearance in all communications. Automated responses help set appropriate expectations about response timing and emergency protocols. Client-facing secure forms streamline intake processes while maintaining compliance.

HIPAA Compliant Email Implementation for Medical Practices

Implementing secure email requires planning tailored to medical practice workflows. Solo practitioners need solutions with straightforward setup and minimal ongoing maintenance. Group practices benefit from centralized administration that enforces consistent security policies across all therapists. Practice management integration connects secure email with scheduling, billing, and documentation systems.

Transition planning helps migrate existing communications to new secure platforms without disrupting client relationships. Documentation templates ensure compliance with both HIPAA and professional ethical standards for electronic communications. Training materials must address both technical operation and appropriate clinical use cases. When implementing HIPAA compliant email practice admins should create workflow procedures that incorporate secure communication into their practice routines.

Cost Considerations For Selecting Email Services

Healthcare providers must balance security requirements with budget realities when selecting HIPAA compliant email. Pricing models vary significantly, with some services charging per user while others offer flat-rate plans better suited to solo practitioners. Additional fees may apply for features like secure forms, extra storage, or advanced security controls. Implementation costs include time spent on configuration, training, and client education about new communication methods. Some platforms offer discounted rates for professional association members or multi-year commitments. Buyers should calculate the total cost of ownership beyond monthly subscription fees, including technical support and compliance documentation. Affordable HIPAA compliant email options exist for practices of all sizes, but require thoughtful evaluation of both immediate pricing and long-term value.

Integrating Email with Broader Practice Security

HIPAA compliant email represents one component of comprehensive practice security. Email solutions should complement electronic health record systems while maintaining appropriate boundaries between clinical documentation and communications. Device management policies ensure therapists access email securely across computers, tablets, and smartphones. Backup procedures preserve communications while maintaining security protections. Incident response planning prepares therapists for addressing potential security issues or breaches. Regular security reviews evaluate whether email practices continue to meet evolving compliance requirements. By integrating email security with broader practice safeguards, therapists create communication systems that protect client information throughout its lifecycle.

Email Marketing For Healthcare

What Is Email Marketing For Healthcare?

Email marketing for healthcare is targeted communication strategy that medical organizations use to engage patients, promote wellness services, share health education content, and encourage preventive care while maintaining regulatory compliance and patient privacy protections. This specialized approach helps healthcare providers, payers, and suppliers build stronger relationships with their communities through informative, valuable email communications. Email marketing for healthcare differs from traditional marketing because it must balance promotional objectives with medical ethics, patient trust, and strict privacy regulations. Understanding email marketing for healthcare helps medical facilities develop communication programs that support patient engagement, improve health outcomes, and grow their practices while respecting regulatory requirements and maintaining professional standards.

The Use of Email Marketing For Healthcare

Email marketing for healthcare encompasses several communication types including patient education newsletters, appointment reminders, wellness program promotions, and health screening campaigns. Patient education emails provide valuable health information, seasonal wellness tips, and disease management guidance that helps recipients make informed healthcare decisions. These educational communications build trust and establish healthcare organizations as reliable health information sources.

Appointment and follow-up communications use email to streamline patient care coordination, reduce no-show rates, and improve treatment adherence. Wellness program promotions encourage patients to participate in health screenings, fitness classes, vaccination clinics, and other preventive care activities. Event marketing emails promote health fairs, educational seminars, and community health initiatives that benefit both patients and the broader community. Service line marketing allows healthcare organizations to promote specific departments or specialties to patients who have expressed interest in related services. Women’s health programs, cardiac care services, and orthopedic treatments can be marketed to relevant audience segments based on demographic factors and self-reported health interests rather than protected medical information.

Patient retention campaigns use email to maintain ongoing relationships with existing patients, encouraging regular check-ups, annual screenings, and continued engagement with healthcare services. These campaigns focus on long-term health maintenance rather than immediate sales objectives.

Regulatory Framework and Privacy Considerations

Email marketing for healthcare must comply with HIPAA privacy regulations that govern how protected health information can be used for communication purposes. Healthcare organizations cannot use patient medical records, diagnosis codes, or treatment histories for marketing without explicit written authorization from patients. General health education content can be sent without authorization, but targeted campaigns based on specific health conditions require proper consent procedures.

The CAN-SPAM Act applies to all commercial healthcare emails, requiring truthful subject lines, clear sender identification, valid physical addresses, and functional unsubscribe mechanisms. Healthcare organizations must honor opt-out requests promptly and maintain suppression lists to prevent future unwanted communications. State privacy laws may impose additional requirements that healthcare organizations must research and implement. Business associate agreements become necessary when healthcare organizations use third-party email platforms or service providers to handle patient information during marketing activities. These agreements ensure that vendors maintain appropriate privacy protections and comply with healthcare industry regulations. Healthcare organizations remain responsible for ensuring their email marketing practices meet all applicable regulatory requirements.

Patient consent management requires systems to track when and how patients provided authorization for different types of marketing communications. Organizations need documentation showing patient consent for targeted campaigns and procedures for updating preferences when patients change their communication choices.

Technology Platforms and Integration Requirements

Email marketing for healthcare requires specialized platforms that provide HIPAA compliance features, data encryption, audit logging, and business associate agreements. These platforms must protect patient information during campaign creation, delivery, and performance tracking while maintaining security standards appropriate for healthcare data. Standard consumer email marketing platforms may not provide adequate privacy protections for healthcare communications.

Integration capabilities allow email marketing for healthcare systems to connect with electronic health records, patient management platforms, and appointment scheduling systems. These integrations enable automated campaign triggers based on appointment dates, discharge events, or routine care intervals without exposing sensitive medical information to unauthorized personnel. Single sign-on features allow staff to access email marketing tools using existing healthcare system credentials. List management functionality should support consent tracking, preference management, and compliance reporting requirements specific to healthcare organizations. Segmentation tools need to work with demographic and behavioral data rather than protected health information to maintain privacy compliance. Automated workflows can personalize communications based on publicly available information and patient preferences.

Security monitoring and audit trails provide detailed logging of who accesses patient information, what campaigns are created and sent, and how patient data is used for marketing purposes. These features support compliance demonstrations during regulatory reviews and help organizations investigate potential privacy incidents.

Patient Engagement and Content Strategies

Email marketing for healthcare should prioritize patient value and health outcomes over purely promotional messaging to build trust and encourage long-term engagement. Educational content performs better than sales-focused communications because patients appreciate receiving useful health information that helps them make better healthcare decisions. Content should be evidence-based, medically accurate, and reviewed by qualified healthcare professionals before distribution.

Personalization strategies must balance engagement benefits with privacy requirements and regulatory constraints. Basic personalization using names, preferred languages, and geographic information can improve response rates without requiring protected health information. More detailed personalization based on health interests or conditions requires explicit patient authorization and careful data management procedures. Timing and frequency considerations help healthcare organizations maintain patient engagement without overwhelming recipients with excessive communications. Different types of healthcare emails may require different sending schedules based on urgency, content type, and patient preferences. Appointment reminders need timely delivery, while educational newsletters can follow regular monthly or quarterly schedules.

Interactive content such as health assessment questionnaires, symptom checkers, and wellness challenges can increase patient engagement while providing valuable health information. These interactive elements should collect only necessary information and maintain appropriate privacy protections throughout the user experience.

Performance Measurement and Optimization

Email marketing for healthcare should be evaluated using metrics that reflect patient engagement, health outcomes, and organizational objectives rather than purely commercial success indicators. Appointment booking rates, health screening participation, and patient satisfaction scores provide more meaningful performance measurements than traditional marketing metrics alone. These healthcare-specific metrics demonstrate how email communications support patient care and organizational mission.

Patient feedback collection through surveys, focus groups, and direct communication helps healthcare organizations understand recipient preferences and identify areas for improvement. Regular feedback collection demonstrates commitment to patient-centered communication approaches and provides insights for optimizing future campaigns. Feedback should guide content development, timing decisions, and overall communication strategy adjustments. A/B testing can improve campaign performance by comparing different subject lines, content formats, sending times, and call-to-action approaches while maintaining compliance requirements. Testing should focus on elements that affect patient engagement and health outcomes rather than manipulative tactics that might undermine patient trust.

Long-term performance analysis helps healthcare organizations understand the cumulative impact of their email marketing efforts on patient relationships, care utilization patterns, and health outcomes. This analysis supports continuous improvement initiatives and demonstrates the value of patient communication investments to organizational leadership and stakeholders.

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What is a HIPAA Compliant Form?

A HIPAA compliant form collects protected health information while meeting security, privacy, and patient authorization requirements set by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. These forms include proper disclosure statements, patient signature capabilities, data encryption, access controls, and audit tracking features. Healthcare organizations use these forms for patient intake, consent, and information exchange while safeguarding patient data throughout the collection and storage process.

Required Elements of HIPAA Compliant Forms

Healthcare forms must include specific components to maintain HIPAA compliance. HIPAA compliant forms need clear authorization language explaining how patient information will be used and disclosed. Patient signature sections document consent for information sharing and establish when that authorization expires. Forms include statements about patients’ rights to revoke authorization and receive copies of their information. Healthcare providers use plain language that patients can understand rather than technical terminology. Privacy policy information and contact details for the privacy officer help patients address concerns. Effective forms contain statements about potential redisclosure limitations after information leaves the provider’s control.

Technical Security Features for Electronic Forms

Electronic HIPAA compliant forms require robust security measures to protect patient information. Forms use encryption during data transmission and storage to prevent unauthorized access. Access controls restrict form viewing and submission processing to authorized personnel with proper credentials. Secure hosting environments provide technical protections including firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Audit logs track when information was entered, viewed, or modified, creating accountability for all data access. Well-designed forms incorporate automatic timeout features that protect information on unattended devices. Data backup systems prevent information loss, while secure storage solutions protect electronic signatures. Form builders include security configuration options that administrators can customize based on their organization’s needs.

Implementing HIPAA Compliant Forms

Healthcare organizations benefit from following structured processes when developing compliant forms. The implementation begins with a review of what patient information needs collection and how it will be used. Many organizations offer both web-based and PDF form options to accommodate different user needs. Effective form creation tools include drag-and-drop builders that simplify development while maintaining compliance standards. Healthcare providers test forms thoroughly before deployment and train staff on proper usage procedures. Implementation plans typically include integration with existing systems like electronic health records and patient portals. Organizations establish procedures for securely storing completed forms according to HIPAA retention requirements.

HIPAA Compliant Form Accessibility

Forms work best when accessible across different devices and platforms to maximize patient convenience while maintaining security. Web-based forms provide flexibility for patients to complete paperwork before appointments. Mobile-responsive designs ensure forms display properly on smartphones and tablets. Modern form systems work with secure digital signature technology to eliminate paper-based processes. Cloud storage solutions with proper security allow authorized access from multiple locations. API connectivity enables healthcare organizations to integrate form data with other systems. Accessible form design accommodates patients with disabilities or language barriers to ensure equal access to privacy protections.

Form Data Management and Integration

Healthcare organizations need systems to manage form data securely after collection. HIPAA compliant forms integrate with secure email systems for protected transmission of patient information. Data from forms flows into relevant clinical and business systems without compromising security. Integration with customer relationship management and patient journey tracking helps organizations provide cohesive care experiences. Marketing automation tools can use non-PHI form data for appropriate patient outreach while protecting sensitive information. Clear data retention policies comply with HIPAA requirements while supporting operational needs. Documented data flows from forms to downstream systems maintain compliance throughout the information lifecycle.

HIPAA Form Compliance Monitoring

Healthcare organizations maintain monitoring systems to ensure form compliance over time. Regular audits identify potential privacy violations or security weaknesses in form collection processes. Staff training covers form handling procedures and includes updates when regulations change. Form review schedules keep all documents current with changing requirements. Monitoring tracks form completion rates to identify process issues affecting patient care. Organizations maintain documentation of form versions, approval dates, and modification histories. Security teams regularly test technical protections for electronic forms to verify continued effectiveness. Compliance officers review form-related complaints to identify improvement opportunities.

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How to Improve Patient Engagement with Secure Communications

As people demand more personalized experiences from their healthcare companies and providers, patient engagement is increasingly emerging as a top priority. With increasing demands for digital-first interactions and more connected healthcare journeys from their patients and customers, healthcare organizations must evolve their communication strategies to meet these new expectations. In fact, more than ever, today’s healthcare patients and customer expect the same efficient and personalized experiences that they have with other businesses, including retail and financial services.

In this article, we explore two key strategies for improving patient and customer engagement: employing a multi-channel approach and personalization. We’ll show you how each concept improves your communication strategy, while ensuring HIPAA compliance at the same time.

The Growing Importance of Patient Engagement

Today’s healthcare industry is undergoing significant changes – some might even call it outright disruption. With new and varied services like Telehealth, Remote Care, In-Home Care, Connected Care, Value-Based Care, and more, clear and targeted communication has never been more vital for effectively improving patient engagement and driving greater levels of participation in an individual’s healthcare journey.

Another key thing to bear in mind is that today’s patients and customers already have increasing expectations for convenient, personalized, and secure interactions with their healthcare providers. According to a report from McKinsey & Company, over 70% of patients prioritize the ability to communicate with their healthcare providers, payers and suppliers through their preferred channels. However, these preferences vary significantly across age groups, highlighting the importance of a multi-channel communication strategy; let’s explore those preferences now.

Patient Engagement Preferences by Age Group

The chart below, compiled from recent research findings, highlights the varying communication channel preferences by age group, helping healthcare companies craft their engagement strategies accordingly:

Channel
  Gen Z (18-25)
  Millennials (26-40)
  Baby Boomers (57-75)
Phone 10% 35% 55%
Email 20% 35% 45%
Text 40% 45% 15%
Patient Portals 30% 45% 25%
Face-to-Face 15% 25% 60%

 

By understanding these differences, healthcare organizations can implement and continually refine multi-channel marketing strategies that cater to the unique preferences of each demographic group. Key takeaways include:

  • Baby Boomers (57 – 75 years old) still prefer phone calls (55%) and face-to-face interactions (60%), though there is preference in email (45%) for certain types of communication, such as appointment reminders and post-care instructions.
  • Millennials (26 – 40 years old) tend to favor asynchronous methods that fit into their busy schedules, i.e., phone, text, and email. This age group is tech-savvy, with half also using patient portals for managing their healthcare options.
  • As digital natives, Gen Z patients lean heavily toward digital channels, with text messaging (40%) and patient portals (30%) as top choices. They, more than any other group, expect fast, responsive communication, which makes secure, real-time digital options essential.

Catering to patients’ communication channel preferences ensures they feel better heard and, as a result, more valued. This will result in them becoming more involved in their healthcare journey, leading to higher rates of satisfaction, being more receptive to new services or products, and, most importantly, better health outcomes.

Multi-Channel Communication: Meeting Patients Where They Are

Healthcare providers, payers and suppliers need a multi-channel strategy, that incorporates email, text, patient portals, and phone calls to match the different communication preferences of their diverse patient and customer bases.

A single-channel, or siloed, approach is far less effective, as each demographic interacts with healthcare providers in unique ways. In light of this, offering communication options across multiple channels makes it easier to reach patients – and for them to participate in their healthcare journeys on their preferred terms.

Benefits of multi-channel communication include:

  • Increased Engagement: Patients and customer are more likely to respond and engage through their preferred communication method, whether that’s by text, email, portal or over the phone.
  • Improved Satisfaction: receiving timely, personalized updates makes patients feel more connected and satisfied with care.
  • Better Adherence to Care Plans: patients who receive reminders or follow-ups through their preferred channels are more likely to adhere to care plans, attend appointments, and follow medical advice.
  • Upselling and Cross-Selling Opportunities: when healthcare providers and suppliers connect with patients and customers over the channel of their choice they are more likely to reach their target audience and attract qualified prospects for new services and products, as well as upgrades to existing ones.

Take Personalization Further by Using PHI in Communications

After unprecedented numbers of people were forced to adapt to digital solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, personalization is no longer optional or “a nice to have” – but an expectation among patients and customers. The healthcare industry is no exception to this with personalized communications greatly enhancing efficiency and driving favorable outcomes.

Securely harnessing protected health information (PHI) is critical to effective personalization across a broad range of use cases, including care management, marketing and preventative care. It’s important to appreciate, however, that personalization in healthcare engagement goes beyond merely addressing patients by their names; it includes tailoring messages, reminders, renewals, recommendations, and offers based on their medical history, treatment plans, personal characteristics (age, gender, etc.), and ongoing health needs.

Examples of PHI-driven personalization include:

  • Appointment Reminders: personalized reminders based on the patient’s treatment plan can reduce no-show rates.
  • Post-Procedure Follow-Ups: securely sending follow-up instructions and health updates specific to the patient’s condition leads to better adherence and recovery rates.
  • Targeted Preventative Care Campaigns: using patient data to create campaigns around vaccinations, screenings, annual tests, or chronic disease management helps address individual health needs.
  • Marketing campaigns: delivering targeted campaigns to highly segmented groups of patients and customers, e.g., offers for the latest in-home blood pressure monitor for patients suffering from hypertension.

However, using PHI in communications requires strict adherence to HIPAA regulations and a broad set of data security safeguards and best practices. LuxSci’s Secure Healthcare Communications Suite enables healthcare organizations to safely use PHI in digital communications, ensuring compliance for email, text, marketing and data collection forms, while providing all the required functionality for personalizing your communications to create the desired impact. 

Why Secure Healthcare Communication is Crucial

Data breaches in the healthcare industry are consistently on the rise, and, unfortunately, they show no signs of abating. In fact, between 2009 and 2023, healthcare data breaches resulted in the exposure of more than a half billion patient records.  Healthcare companies are prime targets for cyberattacks, because of the sensitivity of the data they possess and the critical importance of their services.

Consequently, the fines for healthcare companies that fail to sufficiently protect PHI and fall victim to data breaches can extend into the millions.  The reputation damage, however, can be far more costly, with it often being beyond repair.

LuxSci is the most experienced provider of HIPAA-compliant email and secure healthcare communication solutions, working with organizations of all sizes: from local and regional practices to large healthcare systems, providers and suppliers, including Athenahealth, Delta Dental, 1800 Contacts, and Rotech Healthcare.

Our comprehensive HIPAA-compliant communications platform includes:

  • HIPAA-Compliant Email: send millions of secure emails every month with our Secure High Volume Email solution, or make your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 email HIPAA-compliant with our Secure Gateway Product
  • Secure Text Messaging: reach patients quickly and securely with appointment reminders, health updates, and other communications via text. Connect them directly into their patient portals via their desktop or mobile device —with no application installation required.
  • Secure Marketing: proactively connect with your customers with HIPAA-compliant email marketing campaigns for increased engagement, lead generation and sales.
  • Secure Forms: safely collect, store, access and analyze PHI data from patients to optimize workflows and generate insights that allow you to refine your long-term strategies.

If you’d like to learn more about how to take your patient and customer engagement to the next level, all while remaining compliant with HIPAA regulations, contact us today!

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Is Microsoft Forms HIPAA Compliant?

Microsoft Forms is considered HIPAA compliant only when properly configured within a Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Business environment with an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA). Unlike various competing products, Microsoft includes Forms among its covered services in its BAA, allowing healthcare organizations to collect protected health information when implemented with proper security controls and organizational policies.

Microsoft Business Associate Agreement Coverage

Microsoft offers a BAA that covers Microsoft Forms when used within a properly licensed Microsoft 365 environment. This agreement establishes Microsoft as a business associate under HIPAA regulations and defines responsibilities for protecting healthcare information. The BAA covers Microsoft Forms along with other Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. Healthcare organizations must execute this agreement before using Microsoft Forms to collect protected health information. The BAA establishes contractual protections beyond standard terms of service and the requirements of becoming HIPAA compliant.

Required Configuration for HIPAA Compliance

Making Microsoft Forms HIPAA compliant requires specific configuration beyond simply signing a BAA. Organizations must implement appropriate access controls using Microsoft 365 administrative settings to restrict form creation and data access to authorized personnel. Enabling audit logging through the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center helps track who creates, modifies, and accesses form data. Organizations need to configure retention policies that align with HIPAA record-keeping requirements. Multi-factor authentication adds an essential security layer for employees accessing protected health information. These technical controls work together to create a compliant environment for collecting patient information.

Security Features in Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms includes several security capabilities that support HIPAA compliance requirements. The platform encrypts data both during transmission and storage within Microsoft’s infrastructure. Access controls integrate with Microsoft 365 identity management to restrict form data visibility. Audit capabilities track form creation, modification, and response activities. Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure meets various compliance certifications beyond HIPAA, including FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC standards. These underlying security measures provide the technical foundation for compliant form implementation when properly configured.

Limitations and Compliance Considerations

While Microsoft Forms can be HIPAA compliant, certain limitations require attention from healthcare organizations. The standard form templates do not include healthcare-specific authorization language required by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Organizations must customize forms to include appropriate patient consent statements and privacy notices. Certain advanced features like form branching may create complexity in tracking what information appears to which respondents. Organizations need policies governing form creation and approval to ensure all necessary compliance elements appear consistently. These limitations require procedural controls beyond technical configuration.

Implementation Best Practices

Healthcare organizations implementing Microsoft Forms for collecting protected health information can benefit from following established best practices. Creating standardized form templates with pre-approved compliance language helps maintain consistency. Limiting form creation permissions to trained staff members reduces compliance risks. Regular privacy and security training for all employees who handle form data improves organizational awareness. Conducting periodic audits of form content and access patterns identifies potential compliance issues. Integrating forms with secure document storage in SharePoint improves information governance. These practices can enhance the security of patient information collected through electronic forms.

Alternative Form Solutions and Considerations

Microsoft Forms can be considered HIPAA compliant, but organizations should evaluate whether it provides the optimal solution for their needs. Specialized healthcare form platforms may offer additional features like electronic signature capture, direct EHR or CDP integration, or healthcare-specific templates. Microsoft Forms works best for organizations already invested in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem who need integrated form capabilities. The decision between Microsoft Forms and alternatives like LuxSci depends on factors including existing technology investments, integration requirements, complexity of form needs, and organizational resources for configuration and maintenance.

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How To Send HIPAA Compliant Emails

Knowing how to send HIPAA Compliant Emails is a critical requirement for healthcare providers, payers and suppliers dealing with protected health information (PHI). With fines reaching into the millions, non-compliance isn’t something you want to risk when engaging with our customers and prospects. Unfortunately, many organizations fall into the trap of believing they’re sending HIPAA compliant email because they’ve applied what we call “self-certification” strategies—without fully understanding what’s required to be compliant.

 

Are you 100% sure that you’re sending HIPAA compliant emails and understand HIPAA email rules?

 

In this blog post, we’ll delve into the risks of being non-compliant, explain why self-certification strategies often lead to problems, and provide a HIPAA-compliant email checklist to help ensure your organization avoids the pitfalls self-compliance.

The Importance of Sending HIPAA Compliant Emails

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was established to ensure the protection and privacy of patients’ PHI. This law mandates that any entity handling PHI must implement strict safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, breaches, and exposure of sensitive patient data.

In today’s digital world, where healthcare communications often take place over email and other digital platforms, maintaining HIPAA compliance becomes even more complex. It’s not enough to merely think you’re compliant; you must be able to prove it beyond a doubt.

What Is PHI and Why Does It Need to Be Protected?

As a quick reminder, PHI refers to any data that can be used to identify an individual and that relates to their past, present, or future health condition. This can include anything from personal identification info to medical records and billing information to email exchanges that reference patient care.

 

Examples of PHI include:

  • Names
  • Addresses
  • Birth dates
  • Social Security numbers
  • Medical history and diagnoses
  • Treatment plans & prescriptions
  • Medical device usage and services
  • Appointment information
  • Billing, payments and insurance information

The Risks of Not Being 100% Sure About HIPAA Compliance

In addition to losing sleep at night, the consequences of sending non-compliant emails can be significant. Non-compliance can result in hefty penalties, ranging from $100 to $50,000 per violation, depending on the severity and intent. In some cases, these fines can even surpass $1.5 million annually.

 

But it’s not just the fines—PHI exposure opens the door to a variety of serious risks, including the reputational damage that can stem from breaches of patient data that can impact peoples’ lives and the future of your business. Patients place immense trust in healthcare providers and organizations to safeguard their sensitive information, which stretches beyond HIPAA-compliance to overall data security and privacy. The loss of patient trust is difficult—if not impossible—to regain once compromised.

The Problem with DIY HIPAA Compliance

Simply put, self-certifying HIPAA compliance is a recipe for disaster. Many companies and healthcare organizations falsely believe that if they conduct an internal review or have implemented basic security measures, they’re fully compliant. But without the right expertise and the right HIPAA compliant infrastructure in place, especially encryption, it’s easy to overlook details.

 

Even if you have encryption in place or think your emails are safe, these minimal steps can create a false sense of security. True HIPAA compliance requires continuous monitoring, updating of policies, and regular training to address potential risks.

A Checklist for Sending HIPAA Compliant Email

Sending HIPAA compliant email means ensuring you’ve implemented the following safeguards:

 

1. Encryption Standards for HIPAA Compliance

All emails containing PHI must be encrypted both at rest and in transit—end-to-end. Ensure your email service provider offers high-grade encryption protocols, like TLS (Transport Layer Security), for sending and receiving messages, and flexible options, including dedicated cloud infrastuctures for the highest levels of data protection.

 

2. Secure Access and Authentication

Set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls to limit who can access emails containing PHI.

 

3. Business Associate Agreements (BAA)

If you’re using a third-party email provider, you must have a signed BAA. This agreement ensures that the provider will uphold HIPAA’s security standards.

 

4. Data Backup and Recovery

Make sure your email system has a secure backup and recovery solution. Data breaches can happen, but having a recovery plan will minimize damage and maintain compliance.

 

5. Employee Training and Awareness

Ensure your employees are regularly trained on HIPAA guidelines. Human error is a leading causes of HIPAA violations, so proper education is key.

 

6. Regularly Audit Your HIPAA Compliance Strategy & Practices

HIPAA regulations evolve as technology advances. Conducting regular compliance audits ensures your security protocols are up to date with the latest best practices.

 

7. Avoiding Overconfidence in Your Own Processes

 

No matter how confident you are in your HIPAA strategy, bringing in an external auditor can provide an unbiased view of your compliance status and help identify overlooked vulnerabilities.

 

Don’t Let HIPAA Self-Certification Fool You!

HIPAA compliance is not something you can afford to be unsure about. The risks—both financially and reputationally—are too great. While it may be tempting to “self-certify” or assume your current measures are sufficient, doing so can leave your organization—and your patients and customers—vulnerable. Instead, ensure that you follow a comprehensive strategy that includes best-in-class email encryption, secure access, regular audits, employee training, and support from external experts.

 

Don’t take shortcuts when it comes to protecting sensitive health information and ensuring HIPAA compliance—get it right from the start.

 

If you’d like to get your questions on sending HIPAA compliant email answered, don’t hesitate to reach out to talk with one of our experts—and learn more about the healthcare industry’s leading HIPAA-compliant email, text and marketing solutions from LuxSci.