HIPAA-Compliant Fax for Kansas Healthcare Providers
Clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies throughout Kansas exchange a steady stream of faxes every day: referrals, lab orders, prescription authorizations, and prior authorization requests. Fax stays in the picture because labs, payers, and pharmacies are wired for it, and because the Kansas Department of Health and HIPAA both expect protected health information to travel over a secure channel.
Regulations & Compliance
Kansas providers answer to federal HIPAA rules along with the state health information privacy provisions the Kansas Department of Health enforces, and the KS Board of Medical Examiners adds its own expectations for clinical recordkeeping and how records are shared. A covered entity needs a Business Associate Agreement with any service that touches PHI. Send FAX Mail signs a BAA and is built for the encryption and access controls those rules require.
Key Institutions
- • Kansas Department of Health
- • Kansas Medical Association
- • Kansas Hospital Association
- • KS Board of Medical Examiners