Whether you are a patient or a covered entity (e.g. health organization), you will undoubtedly come into contact with a variety of HIPAA forms. To understand your legal duties as a covered entity, or your rights as a patient, you should become very familiar with these legal documents.
Becoming HIPAA compliant requires a lot of changes and implementations for your organization. Use our HIPAA Security Rule Compliance Checklist to easily check what is done and what requires attention.
“Is Gmail HIPAA compliant?” is probably the most popular question for HIPAA compliant email. It isn’t by default, but we’ll show you how it can be achieved. You can jump to the definitive answer right away, or read further if you want to learn more about the rules and regulations for HIPAA email compliance.
With email only increasing as the main way many patients and organizations want to do business, the advantages of using email far outweigh the risks for healthcare practices. Technology has even made HIPAA compliance for email easier and more affordable than ever.
A perfect way of storing and sending medical files is by using HIPAA compliant cloud storage. File-sharing services like Dropbox and Box help you automatically back-up, synchronize and share healthcare files in the cloud and on mobile devices. But unless you protect these services using proper encryption, they can be…