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"Our practice has resolved the email encryption
issue by using CenturionMail ™,
a product of CenturionSoft, that is fully HIPAA compliant.
It encrypts email and any attachments
at 256 bits and requires only knowledge of
the password for the recipient and a basic understanding of
how to unzip a file to expose
its contents.
We use Outlook within our practice for email and all
that the sender needs to do is click a button on their tool
bar that tells Outlook to encrypt the message
and any attachments and it is done. CenturionMail™
does the
rest...[and] is quite affordable."
Richard T. Lindsey, Ph.D., CEAP
COO & Clinical Director
Licensed Psychologist
Mines and Associates, P.C.
CenturionMail™ 3.03
is a powerful yet easy-to-use security program
for encrypting e-mails as well as files/folders. It has been
selected by a number of major companies in the health care
industry to ensure their HIPAA compliance. The software is
unique in that it uses self-decrypting technology so your recipient needs nothing
to open the encrypted email except the password. Click
here to go to the main CenturionMail™
page.
The
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
was the result of efforts by the
Clinton Administration and
congressional healthcare reform
proponents to reform healthcare. The
goals and objectives of this
legislation are to streamline industry
inefficiencies, reduce paperwork, make
it easier to detect and prosecute
fraud and abuse and enable workers of
all professions to change jobs, even
if they (or family members) had
pre-existing medical conditions.
The
HIPAA legislation has four primary
objectives:
- Assure
health insurance portability by
eliminating job-lock due to
pre-existing medical conditions
- Reduce
healthcare fraud and abuse
- Enforce
standards for health information
- Guarantee
security and privacy of health
information
The
Standards for Privacy of
Individually Identifiable Health
Information are designed to help
guarantee privacy and confidentiality
of patient medical records. These new Standards
for Privacy are quite extensive.
Healthcare providers, insurers,
and employers should review this rule
and its requirements in great detail
with the intent to update and replace
any current internal guidelines in
order to insure HIPAA compliance.
A
significant part of this compliance is
the ability to securely transmit
patient data in order to maintain the
patient's privacy. CenturionMail™
3.03 is easy and inexpensive
enough for an entire organization to
be able to quickly and easily comply
with this part of HIPAA. Plus it has a
number of Administrator safeguards to
make sure your organization is HIPAA
compliant.
This
is the reason CenturionMail™
3.03 has been
selected by a number of major
companies in the healthcare industry
as their solution of choice for HIPAA
compliance. Below
please find some of the key deadlines
for HIPAA:
April
21, 2006
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SECURITY
- Compliance deadline
(small health plans) |
August
1, 2005
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EMPLOYER
IDENTIFIER STANDARD -
Compliance deadline
(small health plans) |
April
21, 2005
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SECURITY
- Compliance deadline
(for all covered entities
except small health plans) |
July 30, 2004
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EMPLOYER
IDENTIFIER STANDARD -
Compliance deadline
(for all covered entities
except small health plans) |
April
14, 2004
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PRIVACY
- Compliance deadline
(small health plans) |
October
16, 2003
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Transactions
& Code Sets - Compliance
deadline
(all covered entities who
filed for an extension and
small health plans) |
April 16, 2003
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Transactions & Code Sets
- deadline for starting
software and systems testing |
April
14, 2003
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PRIVACY
- Compliance deadline
(for all covered entities
except small health plans) |
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