Healthcare Organizations Not Doing Enough to Promote HIPAA Compliance

Recently published in Advance Healthcare Network, According to a survey carried out by Scrypt, Inc., developers of secure and compliant productivity tools for regulated industries, more than half (56%) of healthcare professionals believe their organization could be doing more to educate employees on HIPAA compliance and the rules around sharing Protected Health Information (PHI), as noted by a press release.

More than three quarters (78%) of healthcare professionals use mobile messaging at work, yet when asked if policies existed within their organization relating to the use of mobile messaging specifically, over half (52%) of respondents answered ‘no’ or ‘not sure’, according to a survey carried out by Scrypt, Inc., developers of secure and compliant productivity tools for regulated industries.

Of those who have sent PHI via mobile messaging, 70% confess to having done so using a non-secure application, such as iMessage, WhatsApp or their device’s native messaging client.

Additionally, more than half (56%) of respondents believe their organization could be doing more to educate employees on HIPAA compliance and the rules around sharing Protected Health Information (PHI). Despite these revelations, the vast majority (80%) of respondents consider their own knowledge of HIPAA compliance to be good or very good, which would suggest people have more faith in themselves, than others, or their employer.

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Advance Healthcare Network – Healthcare Organizations Not Doing Enough to Promote HIPAA Compliance