How the HIPAA Omnibus Rule Affects Email, Web, FAX, and Skype
We have written extensively in the past about the impact of HIPAA regulations on email services, web hosting, faxing, and Skype use. The recent HIPAA changes reflected in the Omnibus rule have a...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliant Email Marketing
Customers are constantly referred to us with a specific requirement: The need to send newsletters, marketing materials, or semi-bulk email messages … but in a HIPAA compliant way. Typically, it is not...
View ArticleWhat exactly is ePHI? Who has to worry about it? Where can it be safely located?
There is often a great deal of confusion about what, exactly, constitutes ePHI (electronic protected health information) which must be protected due to HIPAA requirements. Even once you have a grasp...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance Checklist: What You Need To Do
LuxSci provides HIPAA-compliant services and must itself maintain HIPAA-compliant business operations in order to comply with HIPAA HITECH and Omnibus regulations. As such, many of our customers and...
View ArticleWhat exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?
Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications and email have...
View ArticleInsecure ePHI Email: Does Mutual Consent under HIPAA Allow It?
HIPAA is pretty adamant that email messages containing ePHI must be properly handled, and that includes transport encryption and archival. However, encrypting all routine communications between doctor...
View ArticleWillful Negligence of HIPAA Costs a Dermatology Company $150,000
HITECH and Omnibus put teeth in HIPAA. These teeth are starting to take serious bites out of organizations that are willfully neglectful of their responsibilities under HIPAA. On December 28, 2013,...
View ArticleHow to Setup HIPAA Mutual Consent for Insecure Email at LuxSci
We have recently discussed how mutual consent may be used to send individuals ePHI via insecure email under HIPAA in certain cases. If you have decided to use mutual consent in your organization and...
View ArticleHIPAA Resellers Make LuxSci Services Their Own
Small web or IT shops specializing in services for the medical segment often subscribe to LuxSci to provide HIPAA-complaint email and/or web services to their customers. We take care of providing the...
View ArticleAlert: September 22nd is the Deadline for Getting Updated HIPAA Business...
HIPAA Omnibus went into effect a year ago and it introduced many new rules that require HIPAA Covered Entitles and Business Associates to enter into new/revised Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)...
View ArticleOpt-In Email Encryption is Too Risky for HIPAA Compliance
A majority of companies and hospitals that offer email encryption for HIPAA compliance allow senders to “opt in” to encryption on a message-by-message basis. E.g., if the sender “does nothing special”...
View ArticleHIPAA Law and HITECH/Omnibus Conformance – Small Medical Practice
As the owner of a small to medium-sized medical business (a 1-19 physician practice, say, with 5-50 employees) you have many concerns – how to hire and retain competent staff, how to deal with your...
View ArticleOpt-out email security: A step towards better HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance
Breaches of electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI) from email communications amongst HIPAA covered entities, their business associates, and health care consumers reveals a common pattern....
View ArticleePHI in Text Messages and Insecure Email: Does HIPAA allow Mutual Consent?
“Lets just agree that insecurely texting or emailing your medical appointments or lab results to your is OK….” Can you actually have such a discussion and agreement with a patient or organization?...
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