Echoworx Healthcare Privacy Solution Whitepaper
The Echoworx
Healthcare Encryption
Solution helps you to
comply to HIPAA
regulations
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Introduction
Businesses
including
Healthcare
organiza3ons
are
required
by
law
to
protect
vital
email
and
data
communica3ons.
Healthcare
providers,
lawyers,
financial
advisors,
accountants,
educators,
and
other
professional
advisors
have
ethical
and
fiduciary
du3es
to
keep
personal
informa3on
about
their
clients’
confiden3al
informa3on.
Healthcare
providers
need
to
be
able
to
trust
their
email
communica3ons
and
reduce
the
risk
of
damage
to
their
brand
resul3ng
from
informa3on
obtained
through
intercepted
email.
Consumers
are
concerned
about
personal
security,
privacy,
fraud
and
iden3ty
theB.
Governments
have
also
enacted
legisla3ve
measures
to
protect
the
privacy
of
personal
informa3on
which
either
expressly
or
impliedly
apply
to
personal
informa3on
communicated
electronically.
Federal
and
state
governments
have
enacted
legisla3on
that
protect
the
privacy
of
personal
informa3on
generally,
as
well
as
industry-‐specific
legisla3on
that
protects
confiden3al
informa3on
from
unauthorized
disclosure
and
use.
Privacy
legisla3on
imposes
a
general
obliga3on
on
businesses
and
government
to
protect
the
privacy
and
security