HIPAA and Concord Internet Fax

One of the fundamental drivers behind the creation of HIPAA was the need for many different organizations and people to share a single patient’s information. Today many patient records, documents and transactions are delivered and exchanged among physician’s offices, clinics and hospitals under HIPAA guidelines.

The HIPAA rules, both established and anticipated, provide a framework for medical organizations to increase the use of information technology for handling confidential health care information. While the vast proportion of patient records are processed by computers, a similar proportion of records are exchanged among medical organizations by fax. This is particularly true when the exchange of patient records spans national or international borders. Fax is the common denominator in all communication technology, a nearly universal approach that complements computerized record generation and processing. It is no wonder that most medical organizations have enough fax volume and activity to merit improvements in how they send, receive, log and store faxes.

Concord Internet Fax Services

By enabling users to send and receive faxes using their computer or mobile device just as easily and securely as they send and receive email, Concord Internet Fax Services enable organizations to log, store, and manage faxes using the existing email system infrastructure. As a result, by using Concord Internet Fax Services, medical organizations benefit from both the advantages of HIPAA compliant IT systems and the universal communications ability of fax.

Concord Network Security and HIPAA

Concord’s Internet Fax Services are not only convenient and HIPAA compliant. Concord fax is sophisticated and feature-rich, providing even more value to medical information exchange. Security is one of the most powerful features of Concord Internet Fax, designed to guarantee privacy by ensuring that all fax transmissions are absolutely tamper proof. Typical implementations will include features such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.