| How
Private Email Delivers
HIPAA and E-Discovery
Compliance to Doctors
and Health Care Organizations |
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| The Internet has
created a global means
of communication for
the rapid exchange
of all kinds of information
that now exceeds all
other forms. Unfortunately,
the openness of the
Internet – one
of its greatest virtues – is
also its Achilles heel.
The lack of privacy
on the Internet has
kept the health care
and related industries
from utilizing the
Internet to its full
advantage. The privacy
mandates of HIPAA mean
that patient information,
if sent over the Internet,
must not only be adequately
encrypted, but the
new federal E-Discovery
rules require that
it also be archived,
accountable and readily
available for discovery
in litigation. |
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| A
number of problems
prevent the health
care industry from
using the open Internet. |
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- Lack of private communication
(encryption) that is
easy to implement and
use.
- Lack of HIPAA and
E-Discovery email that
is legally compliant.
- The high risks and
losses of productivity
in dealing with the
tremendous flood of
spam and other dangerous
malware.
- Inability to send
very large files (X-rays,
MRIs, etc.)
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| Today, large health
care organizations can
implement privacy solutions
that reside behind the
corporate firewall and
there are emerging web-based
solutions that operate
under the protection
of HTTPS web sites. They
do achieve a limited
degree of HIPAA compliant
privacy, but can only
reach out over the open
Internet to other organizations
through the limitations
of VPNs and web sites
- neither providing the
newly required compliance
for E-Discovery. Dynamic
and ubiquitous email
exchange, in a legally
compliant manner, using
standard email products
like Microsoft Outlook
and Thunderbird - between
clinics, laboratories,
pharmacies and individual
providers - has to date
not been possible. As
private email becomes
more wide-spread complying
with HIPAA and E-Discovery
requirements will be
a necessary component. |
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| WebLOQ overlays
Virtual Private Communities™ on
the standard Internet,
within which all email
and attachments are
completely private,
regulatory compliant,
and free of spam and
other forms of malware.
WebLOQ is available
to small practices
as a hosted service,
and to major organizations
as an enterprise solution. |
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| WebLOQ privacy solutions
bring to health care – for
the first time – a
robust and comprehensive
set of advanced privacy
technologies that break
through the previous
medical privacy barriers.
WebLOQ subscribers may
belong to multiple private
communities, isolating
the exchange of patient
information to select
groups and individual
patients. Single practitioners
may safely exchange any
attachment, even very
large image files, with
hospitals and other doctors
with the full confidence
that no element of the
patient’s privacy
can be compromised. And,
doctors and patients
may safely communicate
using the same email
services they use today. |
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| WebLOQ comes to the
end-user through a single
click download and very
easy install. No special
equipment or technical
expertise is required.
WebLOQ operates beside
any email client such
as Microsoft Outlook,
Thunderbird or Mac Mail.
WebLOQ’s private
email extends to smartphones
and USB devices, allowing
the complete privacy
of patient records and
other sensitive communications
in highly mobile environments. |
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| Because WebLOQ operates
on a powerful central
database, complete communications
forensics and HIPAA compliant
reporting is immediately
available. The E-Discovery
archiving allows local
or offsite storage of
all email activity, bringing
to the small, medium
or large health care
organization a level
of legal compliance that
was not previously possible. |
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