What type of security is necessary to communicate with patients online?
Embedded Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology — a protocol that delivers server authentication, data encryption, and message integrity — ensures RelayHealth messages can only be read by the registered doctor, the doctor’s authorized staff, and the patient. What’s more, the RelayHealth service requires a login ID and password, and can only be accessed by registered users. RelayHealth meets all current CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Internet Security requirements, and employs a dedicated HIPAA officer to monitor changes in and enforcement of the pending HIPAA regulations. RelayHealth will maintain full compliance with the regulations when they are published.
