| If you work for a medical practice, whether it's a | | | | need of significant overhauls down the road. This |
| large hospital or a small private office, you've | | | | method of dealing with the new laws is clunky |
| probably heard of HIPAA and its new add-on, | | | | and impractical compared with the svelte and |
| HITECH. These federal mandates make it unlawful | | | | cost-effective Manage-Trak system. The |
| to release confidential patient information, either | | | | Encrypt-A-Note system from Manage-Trak is an |
| purposely or accidentally, especially as it is | | | | on-demand online application that requires no IT |
| transmitted electronically. The protection of this | | | | staff to run, and can inexpensively be |
| medical data in motion (or DIM for short) is | | | | implemented. Best of all, the system fully complies |
| extremely important in our increasingly high tech | | | | with the guidelines set forth by the Health |
| age as it keeps peoples' private lives safe from | | | | Information Technology for Economic and Clinical |
| public scrutiny and other harmful effects. | | | | Health Act. |
| Personal medical data in the wrong hands can be | | | | The secure messaging application built by |
| extremely damaging to the patient's career, | | | | Manage-Trak requires no additional computer |
| finances, health coverage and even personal life. | | | | resources or anything else on your part. All it |
| This is why patient privacy is so very important. | | | | needs is the internet and possibly access to |
| The government recognizes the need to | | | | Microsoft Outlook. It will then be monitored by a |
| safeguard private healthcare information and is | | | | third party for a small monthly fee, ensuring that |
| coming down hard on the community as a whole. | | | | all data in motion is protected from unauthorized |
| It's time to play by a new set of rules and really | | | | access. |
| buckle down when it comes to confidentiality and | | | | If your medical practice is feeling the weight of |
| data in motion. | | | | the compliance deadline looming but can't spend |
| Many medical practices have implemented costly | | | | many thousands of dollars on a complex operating |
| programs to comply with HITECH and HIPAA, | | | | system, do some research of your own into |
| paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, even | | | | other options that could be more cost-effective |
| hiring a separate IT staff to make sure all their | | | | and more simple. Manage-Trak is sure to come up |
| bases are covered. These complicated systems | | | | as one of those options and should be carefully |
| sometimes do an inadequate job of fully | | | | considered as an alternative to an expensive and |
| protecting encrypted information and may be in | | | | possibly faulty software encryption program. |