Important Things to Know about HIPAA Compliant Web Design

Medical & Healthcare industries are booming and with the increase in its demand across the globe, there’s a ever-growing demand of high-quality, user-friendly, catchy & attractive websites & mobile apps for brands and companies to represent them in web world and to form a stronger connection between their customers and patients.  But these healthcare website are not complete with those unique designs, catchy visual appeal and excellent UI/UX but it need something more that can assure the privacy of the patients’ information and secure their data well.

Here comes the role of HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. All these medical & healthcare websites must also be HIPAA compliant. To avoid unwanted penalties, it’s very important to recognize and pay some serious attention to the protection of personal health information (PHI) because it is very important in healthcare web industry to securely storing and transferring patients’ personal information & records.

Whether its about developing a brand new HIPAA compliant website or simply updating an existing website according to HIPPA, we make it sure you have a peace of mind regarding your website and HIPAA laws. Below are given some of the most important factors to know with regard about HIPAA Compliant Web Design in healthcare & medical web development and hosting:

• Collecting, Storing and Sharing Information

Collecting the information in a secure way is a must when it comes to the personal details about the patients. Will your company website collect the patient’s information online and if so will it be securely collected or not? Whether its a contact form or in-depth online form with each and every single medical details about the patient, you must have a secure way to collect and store all of this information. Moreover, sharing these records with them should be done through some secured patient portal or engaging safe & secured messaging with patients online. Your website must meet all the requirements mentioned by HIPPA Standards.

• Secure Socket Layers Protection & Security

Secure Socket Layers (SSL) plays an important role in healthcare & medical websites with respect to HIPAA. It is basically needed to encrypt all the patients’ information & details. Very often it is found that healthcare website have SSL encryption in limited pages only leaving other pages vulnerable to the hacking and other such problems. Therefore, you must consider making your entire website as per the HIPAA and should have SSL Encryption on each and every page of your website.

• Encrypted Emails

HIPAA compliant medical websites are designed for the utmost privacy and security for the patient’s personal data and information. No information about your patient should ever be emailed or shared through those standard email services. It is very necessary to have a secured and HIPAA compliant sharing of the information with your patients.

• Safe & Secured Storage of Information

Another critical aspect of HIPAA is storing patient information. It is very important in healthcare web development and healthcare website design to store all the information and personal details about the patients very safely and securely. Hence, it is very important to have a completely secured and encrypted database in which all these information is being stored.

• Regular Website Security Testing

In order to be HIPAA compliant, your company website and the servers where it is hosted must be safe and secured and should pass extremely crucial detection tests on a regular basis. This is for the advantage of your company as well as the patients.

• Attention to the Details

Very often while dealing with the bigger issues we ignore the smaller things, which in future may turn into a bigger problem for us. You must make it sure not to avoid and ignore even the minor changes or unusual things happening with your website.  Your website must have all the written policies in place as required by HIPAA, these include HIPAA Privacy Policy and other such details.

When it comes to the information and personal details about the patients, company must take extra care while developing the website and online platform and creating it as per HIPAA Standards is the best way to have a safe and secured website and peace of mind for the rest of your website operations.

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