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Healthcare

eCopy’s document distribution and integration solution offers healthcare organizations unique opportunities to streamline business practices, reduce administrative overhead, and improve communication with business partners and consumers.

Key Issues in the Healthcare Industry:
  • Confidentiality: Organizations must take all reasonable steps to ensure that only authorized individuals see patient health information
  • Auditing: Organizations must maintain a record of patient health information disclosures
  • Minimum Disclosure: Disclosure of patient health information should be limited to the amount reasonably necessary to accomplish the intended purpose
  • Encryption: Identifiable patient health information sent over a public Internet must be encrypted
  • Authorization: Computer system users must only have access to information they are authorized to see
  • Disaster Recovery: Organizations must implement physical safeguards to protect systems storing patient health information from fire and other hazards
  • Availability: Patient health information must be readily available to authorized persons within the organization

How eCopy Can Help:
    • Electronic distribution reduces the possibility of patient health information being seen by people without proper authorization
    • Sending info by e-mail rather than fax ensures that it is delivered to a private e-mail inbox rather than a public fax machine
    • Scanning functions require password authentication, restricting the ability of unauthorized users to distribute patient health information
    • The eCopy device maintains a transaction log of all scanning activity creating an audit trail
    • Drag-and-drop fax and e-mail capability lets you select which pages of the patient's record to send eliminating the need to send an entire record
    • Markup tools let you "whiteout" or "blackout" personal information, without actually altering the original document, before delivering it to a third party
    • Scanned documents are available for instant access by authorized users
    • 128-bit encryption of file attachments helps patient health information remain confidential
    • Scanned documents can be backed up electronically to an offsite location for disaster recovery purposes
    • Standard and easy to use interface ensures that employees will quickly and consistently use the eCopy solution - "no training required"

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