HIPAA-compliant messaging solutions
Secure patient texting gives patients a simple way to connect with their care team using a channel they already check many times a day. It supports faster care coordination, improves satisfaction, and can reduce costs when compared with phone calls, letters, and portals that patients often ignore.
Bobbi Weber
Real-time text translation in secure patient texting helps close critical language gaps and make everyday communication safer, more accessible, and more cost-effective.
Bobbi Weber
In the first part of this series, Secure Texting can be more than just securing messages, we discussed the key features (quick messaging, conversation threads, and required acknowledgment) of a secure messaging application that makes it a valuable texting tool for healthcare professionals. The first question healthcare organizations want a provider of a secure messaging application to answer,” Is the application HIPAA compliant?”.
Krishna Kurapati
Learn how virtual visits and HIPAA-compliant patient texting reduce no-shows, improve communication and deliver seamless, patient-centered healthcare.
Krishna Kurapati
Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare enhances patient satisfaction, reduces errors, and boosts worker retention. QliqSOFT offers tools for seamless communication.
Ben Henson
Implementing HIPAA-secure texting is crucial for organizations seeking regulatory compliance and improving communication and workflow. To ensure success, clarify your goals and craft a compelling message, involve key stakeholders from IT, legal, and clinical departments, update and communicate policies, and create a robust implementation plan. By following these best practices, organizations can harness the power of secure texting to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and provide a better experience for staff and patients.
Bobbi Weber
Your hospital system or eligible provider’s office doesn’t supply mobile devices to its staff or pay for technology solutions like standard mobile data and SMS texting services. So, you don’t have to worry about mobile when creating your HIPAA Risk Assessment, right? You couldn’t be more wrong. Just because you are not providing your staff and physicians with mobile applications doesn’t mean they aren’t using them to transmit and store PHI. And the fact that these systems are NOT directly under your Health IT staff’s control makes them MORE of a risk for a breach – and more necessary to include in your Risk Assessment.
Krishna Kurapati
According to a HIMSS research study, over 90% of hospitals still, rely on pagers to coordinate patient care. Unfortunately, this antiquated technology provides only a one-way means of communication, where nurses must waste precious time waiting for a physician to respond to their page and never knowing if they ever received it. That is why we developed Qliq, the best secure texting platform and pager replacement solution that connects doctors and nurses and facilitates true patient-centered communication.
Ben Henson
Secure Messaging Solutions are of Interest to: Healthcare professionals who visit patients in at home or a private medical facility, Front Office Staff, Billing Departments/Services. Problem: It is estimated that doctors in the U.S. leave approximately $125 billion on the table each year due to poor billing practices. Sixty-five percent of all hospital bills have an error somewhere in the bill.
Krishna Kurapati
In today's changing healthcare environment, secure and easy communication is critical. Instead of worrying about the risks of HIPAA compliance with SMS texting, secure texting apps are being adopted by more and more providers. These applications allow secure voice, text, and image transmission of PHI to ensure providers have the information they need to make accurate medical decisions. Right now, several companies are developing HIPAA-compliant, secure texting applications.
Krishna Kurapati
Chronic diseases are an epidemic in the U.S. At least 60% of Americans have a chronic condition, while 42% had more than one. These conditions are a major drain on healthcare costs. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), chronic illness accounts for 86% of the nation’s $2.7 trillion annual healthcare expenditures.
Ben Henson
Everyone is using multiple instant messaging apps these days. People around the world are embracing the idea of this quick, and easy way of communication with the health care provider. But, when it is linked with facilitating the patients with a desirable alternative, such as texting, to communicate with the physicians, it accompanies the risk of data privacy issues even for the doctors who try to stay HIPAA compliant.
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