HIPAA compliant email
Posted By: ali B on 2008-11-28
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Does winzip qualify as hipaa compliant when used with a password? Does anyone out there work directly for a doctor and have experience with this?
Any help would be appreciated!
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HIPAA compliant email
Is it HIPAA compliant to send reports via email if they are password protected, or does it have to be certified email?
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Is it HIPAA compliant?
That certainly does sound like a great solution! You are right, I would probably want them to zip their files anyway since I have only dial-up available to me at home and would need it at a CG if I ever get to that point in my life.
Thank you for your feedback. It is sincerely appreciated.
This is HIPAA compliant? nm
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I found out it is HIPAA compliant. :) (nm)
HIPAA compliant at home sm
How does one become HIPAA compliant at home? Used to working in an office - don't want to make a mistake. How do all of you do it?
Sending a report--HIPAA compliant
I am searching for possibilities to streamline getting reports back to my client. Is there a HIPAA-compliant way to send medical reports securely via email so that they could be printed on site?
Sending a report--HIPAA compliant
This may be easier and less expensive than I thought. I could just encrypt the file, zip it and send via email. The client could then print it out. Has anyone successfully used a free encryption program that meets HIPAA requirements, maybe the free CenturionMail?
Kris
MPWord has been around for years. It is HIPAA compliant and a
contact Vann Joe and ask him questions. He is a very open and honest person.
Need help today with HIPAA compliant form sm
I have agreed to help someone out in their office tomorrow as they had a problem in the office. I realized I will be handling a lot of patient charts, company problems, etc., and would like to bring with me a simple confidentiality statement for their protection and mine without going into a long, lengthy contract. Is there anywhere on the Web I can get something quickly? This is strictly volunteer, I am not charging them, so it's kind of a sticky situation. I just want to cover both of us as they have litiginous minds in there who are very unhappy; this is why they're having problems. Help! Short and sweet, I hope, so I can type it up tonight and bring it along with me. TIA
New Software: MPTools -- Invoicing and HIPAA-compliant e-mail with just a few clicks
MPTools, a new release from Emmaus, is a set of six utilities designed to answer real needs by MTs and MTSOs. Among the utilities are these:
1. Create invoices for your clients and pay stubs for your MTs.
- Select client.
- Verify dates.
- Select files.
- Create invoice.
2. E-mail transcribed reports in HIPAA-compliant encrypted zip files with just a few clicks.
- Select client
- Click Suggest filename
- Select files (the actual transcription, not zip files you've made, for the program will zip, encrypt and password protect when it fashions the email)
- Click Send Email. (In the Sent History, each file you've sent is separately listed with abundant information about it: to whom sent, date and time, name of the email, name of the zip file, etc.)
3. Unzip / zip files, even password protected ones, automatically.
4. Print files anywhere on your network.
You'll find MPTools exceptionally easy to use and intuitive. To better explain things we've posted screen captures on the website, and make the program available for download and trial so you can see firsthand how using MPTools will make your workday shorter and easier.
How is keeping a patient database on your personal computer HIPAA compliant?
I would love an effortless line counting program too, but...
Just curious if anyone has investigated that issue with this software.
Please leave an email or email me at my address....click the email button. Thanks...nm
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What FTP HIPPA Compliant do you use?
I am setting up my web site and I am having trouble understanding FTP and is it HIPPA Compliant. Which one do you use?
If you are having any problems validating your email addy, please email support@mtstars.com
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KVMs $20-60. One internet connection. You'd have no email or a 2nd email acct for your 2nd puter.
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I don't understand. I didn't get email from MT Stars, I got email from offshore people
is what I'm talking about. I'm not a liar and take offense to your insinuation.
They can send an email that goes to all MTs in one shot. I think she just means a courtesy email
would be nice. MQ is not getting any easier. My account has been picked over thoroughly when it went on DQS by ASR and I get all the remains because they only have a core group doing ASR which I think is wrong because you get all the bad dictators and it would be nice to be acknowledged that at least you know the person you can discuss problems with as they crop up. This is a big one and we have no manager anymore and no one to discuss this with at all in my office so you just sit here very day doing this work and no way to vent to someone that could offer some suggestions on this and other issues that come up to help relieve some of the stress of working this way.
Just send an email to the email link inside the post.
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Again, because you entered your email address, you CAN receive email from anyone, but THEY
e-mail address because it is not revealed when they send mail because we have spam protection in place. The only way they would know what your email address is, is if you reply to the email they send you. If you don't want to receive any email from anyone, simply do not enter your email address in the Email field.
Administrator
I intended to email it- already email the mods to remove
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Not through the MTStars email server. Your email address is NOT
visible to anyone. The only way your employer would know it is you is 1) if you respond when someone emails you, or 2) they recognize the way you write.
tried to email, invalid poster or email it said nm
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San Antonio; email me; I can give you email for MT sm
who is in San Antonio and may be able to help you.
I'm in Corpus.
Can you email me? Email inside
Please email me as I need to find a good employer--trying to get rid of those golden handcuffs! Thanks. lsmithes@hotmail.com
and I also got an email in my home email--sm
address for a similar type of *job opportunity* today, although it was not this person's name. I can't believe the presumptiveness of some of these people! Don't they realize that they are taking jobs away from us and probably doing something illegal, to boot? I sent the email to the authorities this morning after reading it. T'd me off!
That is against HIPAA
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What about HIPAA?
 Our hospital is adamant about no accounts going offshore. Not only because of quality, but also privacy, lawsuits, etc. ESPECIALLY after what happened a couple years ago between UCSF Hospital and sub-sub-contractor in India. (MT there who got gypped in pay held accounts for "ransom".)
HIPAA
Some in the office I work in said there are HIPAA rules that apply to transcription, such as font size, etc. Does anyone know about this and where I can get more information.
Thanks
HIPAA and cc - what to do? sm
If doctor wants carbon copy sent, I'm told it's a violation of HIPAA rules. Please tell me where I can find this on the Internet. Thanks.
Why would that be against HIPAA?
I have to save my files at least through the invoice period anyway. Why would it be against HIPAA to run them through IT?
I'm not the OP, but yes, there is a HIPAA (sm)
violation if you keep copies of patient reports on your hard disks in a form where the patient is identifiable.
What I do to make my normals and IT glossaries is cut/paste a copy of the body of each report, with no info to identify the patient, into wordpad and save under the dictator's name (such as jones hysterectomy, smith HP, etc).
HIPAA
There is nothing in HIPAA that says this information cannot be in the record. What it says is that IF you need to de-identify the information for any reason, all of those things must be removed. Probably not the best policy to have but not a HIPAA violation.
HIPAA
I was recently hired as an employee at a doctors office and we have been discussing taking my MT work home. It is all on hard copy except for occasional e-mails I need to send to the office to download. What do I need to be doing to comply with HIPAA?
HIPAA req.
I use encrypted e-mail through CryptoHeaven, cryptoheaven.com. They have a bunch of different packages and well priced. All work must be kept confidential and protected as much as possible (lock box for saved work on CDs). I keep all patient lists only to type and then they are shredded. Make sure if you are faxing pt lists back and forth, you are using a front fax cover sheet with a statement on it regarding confidentiality, etc. (your doctor's office probably uses this when sending stuff from their office). I also have the ability to lock my office when there are parties, etc. at the house just to be on the safe side.
It's HIPAA............nm
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I don't know about HIPAA.... sm
But I wonder why they were asking you all those questions? The only thing I remember when enrolling my son was making sure his shots were up to date. Of course, we are talking a long time ago!
I don't understand why a kindergarten would need such a thorough medical history on their students. HIPAA or not, it sounds like invasion of privacy to me.
It's HIPAA
It's HIPAA, not HIPPA, and the provisions are only enforceable within the US.
There are free HIPAA courses online; you don't have to become certified, just become familiar with it so your work area, computer, etc. are compliant. Should be mandatory learning for all MTs.
it's HIPAA, not HIPPA. nm
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HIPAA Compliance ?
Does anyone have any knowledge about a US MT typing from home and any HIPAA compliance violations if this MT also types from a 2nd residence in a different state for part of the year?
HIPAA response
HIPAA has more to do with the confidentiality of a patient's information. It has nothing to do with what residence you transcribe from, as long as you maintain the confidentiality of the patient's information. The company you work for may have some sort of requirement that you notify them if you'll be working from a location other than the location that they have on record for you.
HIPAA rules
A lot of the national transcription services have many accounts where the hospitals/docs still want the name of the patient in the body of the report and do not want "the patient" in the body of the report. So the facilities still respect what the doctors want.
It's HIPAA and you pronounce it hip-uh.
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By the waq, it should be brEAch of HIPAA. nm
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HIPAA at the Hosptial
Was at the hospital yesterday for some radiology testing. To summon me from the waiting area (full of other patients), the person who does the registrations used my first and LAST NAME! Bleah!
Then, after I was registered and back in the waiting area, another patient entered, sat beside me, and said "So, you're here for the same thing I am--I heard you mention it when you were being registered. I was in the next cubicle."
Shortly after this a different hospital employee summoned another patient from the waiting area using first AND LAST NAME! EEEK!
What on Earth ever happened to the HIPAA regulations? HIPAA applies to the hospital setting, right?
Any suggestions?
HIPAA is a joke
as long as these private records continue to travel overseas beyond the reach of the long arm of U.S. courts and law enforcement.
It's not a HIPAA violation for sure. Can you
have the account use digital recorders that are uploaded to your FTP site? Bypass the TASP entirely. Or if you are the only transcriptionist, you can use Bytescribe's E-shuttle. Check it out at bytescribe.com
Ack, misspelled HIPAA!
I really do know how to spell HIPAA correctly, except when I'm being an airhead, sheesh!
HIPAA and Outsourcing
How can outsourcing to an offshore company, where a patient's sensitive personal and medical information is concerned, be HIPAA complient? Shouldn't we as patients have the right to know if our medical info and personal data are being sent via the Internet to a foreign country? Shouldn't we as patients be asked to sign a release/agreement to such a practice, notifiying us of this? I have never asked my doctor/hospital if they outsourced to offshore companies...but I will now. Wonder if I'll get a truthful answer.
According to HIPAA, SS# are not to be on reports.
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SSN is not a HIPAA issue here
HIPAA, health information, SSN is not health information, no way relates. SSN would be a schools way to verify date of birth and U.S. citizenship.
The joys of HIPAA
Or you could just activate a password-protected screen saver on the machine any time you needed to take a BR break and there was anyone with a 5-county radius of wherever your machine was. Even the hospitals do that. I have to laugh at HIPAA sometimes. They're so worried someone might find out someone else has hemorrhoids, when most of the violations actually prosecuted that I've seen have involved hospital employees who had a legitimate right to see the patient demographics but used their position to perpetrate identity theft. Hey, if somebody is dying of cancer, they might be dead before anyone notices the unauthorized spending spree.
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