Healthcare
The Internet is an ideal medium for interaction and the sharing of data by
healthcare providers, physicians, health plans, pharmacists, researchers, and
patients - or it would be, if only it were secure. Transmitting healthcare
information online has many challenging areas:
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Payer to provider communication
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Provider to patient communication
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Access to patient's/benefit recipient's records
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Access laboratory results
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Send and receive claims
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Account Statements
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Claim tracking
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Employee messages
One of the driving forces behind the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) was to ensure that healthcare and human resources
professionals took adequate precautions when using the Internet to transmit
electronic patient health information.
CertifiedMail's Secure Email System, Policy Manager, and Large File Transfer
are so simple to implement and cost-effective to use that there's no excuse for
anyone to risk patient confidentiality by sending private information over an
open communications channel.
Here's how:
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Low development and implementation costs - the turnkey system can be
implemented in less than one day.
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Platform-independent - the only user requirements are an Internet connection, a
browser that supports SSL, and a valid email address.
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Easy to use - all encryption is transparent to the user: sending a secure email
is as easy as pressing SendCertified instead of the regular Send button in
their email client
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Flexible and adatable - CertifiedMail service is built using open standards and
has a mature API and an XML interface to ease integration into existing
infrastructures
Additional user benefits include:
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Identification/Authentication: CertifiedMail provides HCFA-acceptable methods
of assuring that the sender and the recipient are known to each other.
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Message Authentication: A CertifiedMail patent-pending process verifies that
the message sent, along with any attachments, is identical to what the
recipient opens.
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Retract a Message: If a mistake is made and a message is sent in error,
CertifiedMail lets the sender retract that message before it's opened by the
recipient.
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Confirmed Delivery: When the message is opened, a receipt is sent which
contains the date and time when the message was read, along with the IP address
of the recipient.
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Universal Access: The CertifiedMail system allows insurance companies,
hospitals, physicians, health plans and patients to communicate amongst
themselves, without the need for special software by any recipient. Patients
can even read their email on web appliances such as WebTV or web-enabled cell
phones and respond without the need to purchase or exchange certificates or
keys.
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