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HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, a federal law establishing standards to protect the privacy of patient’s health information and preventing that data from being disclosed without patient consent.
In today’s digital age, safeguarding data, particularly sensitive health information, is paramount. For this reason, eFax has been meticulously designed to meet the stringent standards set by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Business Associate (BA) agreement. Regardless of the healthcare documents you transmit, eFax guarantees the highest protection of your business and client data.
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When you’re responsible for data as personal and sensitive as patients’ medical records, you can’t afford to use anything less than the most secure and proven technology to transmit and store that data—not only for HIPAA compliance but also to safeguard your patients’ privacy and protect your organization’s reputation.
eFax Protect utilizes encryption protocols so you can transmit medical documents safely while ensuring that the privacy of your patient remains confidential and protected from unauthorized access during transmission.
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Having invested in our secure, cloud faxing infrastructure, eFax Protect enabled with AES 256-bit encryption can offer your organization unmatched levels of security for your most sensitive fax transmissions.
eFax Protect employs encryption protocols to ensure data remains secure and protected from unauthorized access during transmission.
From encryption, to utilizing the features of eFax Protect to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information, you won’t find a more secure HIPAA compliant fax partner to safeguard your regulated data.
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eFax Protect ensures healthcare professionals have the security and compliance they need when faxing medical documents from our iOS and Android mobile apps, our eFax Messenger tool, and our MyPortal web app.
Today, our HIPAA Compliant fax app offers healthcare employees the ability to receive, edit, sign, and send faxes safely and securely while they’re out of the office, giving them full fax functionality no matter where they are.
BAA Agreements for Enhanced Security
The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires all Covered Entities to have a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with any Business Associate (BA) that may handle, process, access, or come in contact with PHI.
Our BAA Agreements, if needed or requested, are just one more way eFax Protect earns the trust and continued business of our healthcare clients.
Simply put, you won’t find a more secure HIPAA compliant online fax solution than eFax Protect enabled with AES 256-bit encryption.
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Related FAQs Around HIPAA Compliant Fax
See All FAQsYes, eFax is completely safe and fully complies with HIPAA regulations.
HIPAA allows for data-sharing, but only between certain stakeholders. Any wrong step — like using a non-secure file-sharing platform — can make data available to unintended recipients and even bad actors. And unfortunately, many typical methods companies use to share information are not as safe as they seem. This is especially true as hackers continually improve their tactics.
Healthcare organizations need a tamper-proof way to share sensitive patient information — and eFax provides just that.
eFax Protect’s HIPAA compliant fax solution uses military-grade encryption to ensure no one can intercept the data while in transit. It doesn’t matter if your team faxes from their desktop, mobile device or laptop — the AES 256-bit encryption protects the information to help your organization remain HIPAA compliant.
Technically, traditional machine faxing can be HIPAA-compliant because it offers point-to-point data protection. The issue may arise when the fax prints out at the recipient’s machine, though. Healthcare organizations must ensure they are sending the document to the right recipient and include a cover letter explaining who the information is for in case it ends up in the wrong hands.
However, even with these precautions, traditional faxing isn’t foolproof. Documents can easily end up with the wrong people, especially if they’re left forgotten at fax machines. And if the wrong person accesses the information, the file-sharing process is no longer HIPAA-compliant.
A better solution is eFax. It offers consistently safe and HIPAA-compliant file-sharing processes, thanks to the AES 256-bit encryption. You no longer have to worry about whether your faxes are going to the right place or if someone has accidentally intercepted them. By using eFax, you know exactly where your information is going — and that the data is completely protected in transit.
Email itself is not HIPAA-compliant. When you send a standard email, it travels in plain text from your mail server to your recipient’s. That means anyone can intercept the email during transit, including when it’s left unread in the recipient’s inbox.
However, fax via email can be HIPAA-compliant if you use a service like eFax.
eFax Protect employs military-grade encryption to ensure your documents have the ultimate protection throughout transit. Instead of traveling in plain text, the information on the emailed fax gets jumbled until the recipient opens the email. That means anyone who tries to hack or intercept the email will only see an incomprehensible set of characters — one that’s almost impossible to decrypt.