The healthcare industry is currently laden with pagers. The joke is that not even drug dealers use pagers any more. However, almost 80% of doctors do use pagers. The main problems with pagers is that they impede efficient clinical communications and lack security. How can clinicians and the hospitals they work for embark on improving … Continued
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Written by Arianna Etemadieh, Inbound Marketing Specialist at Paubox Considering the usefulness of smartphones, it’s no surprise that many people rely on them. Whether it’s for checking emails, searching a quick inquiry or actually making a phone call, smartphones are out and about more often than not. With that said, wouldn’t it be convenient to … Continued
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Answering services and HIPAA compliance Answering services are frequently used by doctors’ offices and practices to take down patient messages and send them over to the doctor at a later time. Often, this set up leads the answering service to either text back the doctor with the patient’s name and phone number. So, you might … Continued
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OnPage releases new voicemail features In an era where voice mail is ubiquitous, our customers have been asking for the ability to receive voicemail attachments on their OnPage messages. You know, there are times when you need to send a critical message to your physician or IT professional with a voice mail attachment. And so … Continued
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Protect Yourself from HIPAA Violations When you Use HIPAA Compliant Messaging Holidays or no holidays, HIPAA fines are always a possibility. That’s why OnPage took the opportunity at the beginning of December to co-produce a webinar with HIPAA scholar and lawyer Matt Fisher. Matt is a partner at the law firm of Mirick & O’Connell … Continued
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In the U.S. and Canada, one in 10 children ages 5 to 17 are classified as obese. The implications of obesity are severe and can range from insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, poor emotional health, and diminished social well-being. Additionally, obese children tend to become obese adults, making childhood obesity a public health concern. … Continued
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In 2016, almost 85% (1) of physicians and hospital personnel reported that they brought their personal smartphones to work. At the same time, Accellion (2) also reported that 68% of healthcare security breaches were due to the loss or theft of personal mobile devices or files. These two statistics have led some healthcare institutions to … Continued
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Hackers are naturally drawn to healthcare because there’s great value in healthcare data. If a credit card has been compromised, the bank can put a stop on the card. The value is gone. But you can’t do that with a medical record. Running in parallel with the trend of healthcare data theft is the fact … Continued
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At OnPage, we often see healthcare administrators pushing back against the use of personal smartphones. Administrators believe that enabling bring-your-own-device (BYOD) presents a security threat in healthcare. Indeed, BYOD security in healthcare is challenging and leads to many questions. For example, many hospital administrators wonder how they can ensure that ePHI is not intercepted and … Continued
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What’s so hard about the encryption of healthcare mobile messaging? Last week, I came across an interesting article on encryption and healthcare mobile messaging. The article pointed out that pointed out the need for mobile device security when practitioners exchange PHI. Apparently, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) … Continued
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