You’re undoubtedly familiar with HIPAA’s protections against the unauthorized disclosure of private patient data. Like many medical professionals, you’ve probably spent a lot of time and money trying to comply with these regulations. But did you know that HIPAA also requires doctors and dentists to retain all digital patient files, including patient records, billing documents and email for seven years or more? Violations are punished by the same fines — up to $25,000 per patient record — as HIPAA’s privacy provisions.
It’s sad but true: in today’s litigious culture, doctors and dentists run the risk of being sued just for doing their jobs. Did you know that juries may consider problems retrieving patient records as evidence of guilt? Neither hard disk failure, nor forgetfulness, nor “I just didn’t get around to it” are acceptable excuses.
Doctors and dentists must also be able to prove that their records haven’t been altered. Manual backups and tape-based solutions don’t even meet these minimum requirements. Only UV Backups saves you time and money by providing retention, easy recovery, offsite storage and a bulletproof audit trail.
UV Backups securely captures every email: inbound, outbound and internal, including attachments. You set the rules for who has access to restore emails. It’s fast and easy to search on nearly every component of an email and restore it to your own or a separate mailbox.
UV Backups automatically backs up data over the Internet as frequently as you’d like: patient files, contracts, insurance information, financial records, patient notes, employee information, even laptops. You name it, UV Backups captures it, encrypts it and gives you an audit trail to ensure compliance with HIPPA regulations.