Nurses have a love/hate relationship with HIPAA. It’s one of the strongest federal privacy protections and exists before we’re born and lasts well after we’re dead. Plaintiff attorneys and the Certified Legal Nurse Consultants working with those same plaintiff attorneys don’t tend to worry about the HIPAA hippo too much. Why? Because they’ve got the plaintiff’s, or potential plaintiff’s, permission to share and transmit the plaintiff’s medical records between themselves. Defense CLNC® consultants are probably working as a “business associate” of the defense firm so they’re safe too. IF you’re concerned you can read this.
But I get the most questions regarding how to transfer information between the law firm and the CLNC consultant – plaintiff or defense. If you’re a CLNC consultant working with an attorney who doesn’t (yet) have a secure file transfer system, you might recommend ShareFile.com from Citrix.
It’s secure, easy-to-use and is available at various price points. This strategy will raise your techiness with your attorney-clients and for an attorney looking for a secure system – it’s well worth looking into.
Keep on techin’,
Tom
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For the work I do assisting with Medicare Part A appeals, an encryption program became a necessity. Heretofore, I had always been able to “hitch a ride” on encrypted emails I received from my hospital clients, and to return my messages, add file attachments or even forward and edit, to other valid members of their own secure system. But when the process tightened down in late September, their system did too, and hitching a ride on their encrypted messages, particularly uploading any file or editing, was no longer a working possibility. So, I researched the various encryption brands, asked my son-in-law who has a Masters in computer systems security, and then I also read the customer reviews. My encryption program was not all that inexpensive, but it is fairly simple to use for both myself and my client hospitals and meets the HIPAA requirements.
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Keep on techin’,
For the work I do assisting with Medicare Part A appeals, an encryption program became a necessity. Heretofore, I had always been able to “hitch a ride” on encrypted emails I received from my hospital clients, and to return my messages, add file attachments or even forward and edit, to other valid members of their own secure system. But when the process tightened down in late September, their system did too, and hitching a ride on their encrypted messages, particularly uploading any file or editing, was no longer a working possibility. So, I researched the various encryption brands, asked my son-in-law who has a Masters in computer systems security, and then I also read the customer reviews. My encryption program was not all that inexpensive, but it is fairly simple to use for both myself and my client hospitals and meets the HIPAA requirements.