Health care professionals routinely transfer patient referrals, medical records, claims information, and more between facilities. All of these documents carry individually identifiable patient information protected by the new HIPAA law. With the advent of HIPAA, many healthcare organizations are struggling to create new processes and adopt new technology that will enable them to secure the privacy of patient information. PrivateVaults can assist medical offices and hospitals in protecting the confidentiality of patient information.

A defining issue in health care is privacy - for patients, its the right to own and manage their own health data in a manner that won't compromise the confidentiality of that information; for providers and payers: it's the need to securely share information in order to provide care or conduct business. These as-yet unsolved issues point to a clear need - a trusted, secure way to move, store and access data. Now there is PrivateVault.

• Correspondence among doctors can take place vault to vault, removing the need to fax or mail documents, and meeting stringent "privacy" tests for secure transmission and destination.
• Additional information to support claims can be sent via secure email to an insurer's vault, instead of sending this backup info over physical mail or fax. This method speeds up claims processing since it significantly reduces issues such as faxed information being retrieved by the wrong person or that the items are "lost" while sitting in the "fax" room.
• If the documents are most easily available in printed form, then by installing a new fax/scan/copy machine from a leading office products vendor, documents can be sent directly to a vault. These machines have been enabled to scan and email directly into an EnterVault vault.
• Patient test results and treatment histories can be emailed to a vault and stored and organized within the vault for future access by the patient should they change doctors or move to a new area. Patients are empowered to manage their own medical information using a secure, private tool such as PrivateVault. Auto alert can send an email notice to a patient's work or home email when new items arrive in their Vault Inbox. Issues with HIPAA or GLBA are reduced since PrivateVault is a secure online storage provider, federally audited and designed from the ground up to meet stringent security and privacy requirements.