HIPAA-compliant Cloud Faxing

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Healthcare providers, insurance companies and other covered entities trust eFax Corporate to transmit their most sensitive documents. eFax Corporate can help your organization implement a HIPAA compliant cloud faxing solution.

Healthcare providers, insurance companies and other covered entities trust eFax Corporate to transmit their most sensitive documents

 

eFax Corporate® can help your organization with HIPAA-compliant cloud faxing solutions.


Safeguarding your patients’ electronic protected health information (ePHI) is the law. However, when it comes to complying with the Security Rule (part of HIPAA) and implementation of technical safeguards, no specific requirement as to the technology solution a covered entity must implement to protect ePHI is identified. Rather, the Security Rule codifies that a covered entity must  “Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network.”1 This is especially true given the risk of breach and exposure of ePHI over the Internet for covered entities today.
 
Do you know if your current fax infrastructure is in full compliance with HIPAA? With the Federal Act’s hundreds of pages of regulations, ongoing revisions, expansions and “clarifications,” keeping abreast of the regulations is complicated. eFax Corporate® can help.
 

Increased HIPAA Enforcement Demands a Focus on Compliance.

 

As the regulations have solidified and experience has been gained, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have increased their enforcement, investigating more covered entities each year — and in many cases have enforced fines for breach violations.
 

In a 2012 report by Gartner Group — “As HIPAA Regulations Get Teeth, Healthcare Firms Feel the Bite” — analysts recommend covered entities “adjust security budgets and accommodate HIPAA regulatory compliance as part of normal and customary risk management,” due largely to “a significant increase in HIPAA enforcement.”


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References: 

  1. Department of Health and Human Services. HIPAA Security Series Papers.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/securityrule/techsafeguards.pdf
  1. Department of Health and Human Services. Enforcement Results by Year.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/data/historicalnumbers.html
  1. Washington Examiner. Brookings: Healthcare hacks up 1,800%, penalties on firms weak
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/brookings-healthcare-hacks-up-1800-penalties-on-firms-weak/article/2560199
  1. Department of Health and Human Services. HITECH Act Enforcement Interim Final Rule.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/enforcementrule/hitechenforcementifr.html
  1. eFax Corporate® Healthcare IT Pulse Survey
http://enterprise.efax.com/blogs/healthcare-it-pulse-infographic-survey-results
  1. Department of Health and Human Services. Enforcement Results by Year.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/data/historicalnumbers.html
  1. Optional eFax Secure™ provides highly encrypted TLS secure transmission (VPN) of data in transit with AES 256-bit encryption of data at rest.
  2. Department of Health and Human Services. HIPAA Security Series Papers.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/securityrule/techsafeguards.pdf
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