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The theft or loss of Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) from your healthcare organization can have dire consequences. Your organization may be subject to severe fines and expensive disclosure processes under HIPAA and other federal and state information protection statutes.

Are you doing everything that you can to protect your organization from the catastrophe that will come from the theft or loss of PHI? The checklist below can help you to determine whether you are currently taking all the prudent and necessary steps:

	Are you storing files containing PHI records in encrypted format so that unauthorized users cannot gain access to them? (If not, you are putting your organization at grave risk.)
	Do you encrypt all PHI records and files that are transmitted across public networks? (If you are using email and email attachments to send PHI to and receive PHI from your network of customers and vendors then most likely your data is not encrypted and is subject to theft.)
	Is access to files containing PHI records limited to those persons who have a legitimate reason for that access? (If not, your PHI can be stolen by unauthorized employees and contractors.)
	Do you have monitoring in place to alert you to the occurrence of unauthorized use of or access to PHI? (Without monitoring, you will never know that your PHI is being stolen until it is too late.)
	Are files containing PHI stored only as long as reasonably necessary to to comply with state or federal regulations and then automatically deleted? (Saving PHI for longer than necessary puts you at risk.)

If you did not check each of the boxes, then you need our help! The Secure File Transfer System can help your healthcare organization to protect its PHI. The system controls and monitors access to PHI, automatically deletes PHI based on data retention policies that you set, and encrypts PHI while in transit across the Internet and in storage as well. To get more information, arrange for a demo, or set up a Free 30 Day Trial of the system, contact Noonmark Sales today.