HIPAA-Compliant Fax for Texas Healthcare Providers
The Texas Medical Center in Houston is the largest medical complex in the world, and the volume of referrals, lab orders, and prior authorizations moving through it and systems like Baylor Scott & White Health adds up to enormous fax traffic across the state. Protected health information has to be transmitted in a way that meets HIPAA and Texas privacy law, which rules out an ordinary fax machine sitting in an open work area.
Regulations & Compliance
Texas providers answer to federal HIPAA and to the Texas Medical Records Privacy Act, which reaches a broader set of entities than the federal rule does. The Texas Medical Board sets the recordkeeping standards physicians have to meet, and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission oversees Medicaid provider compliance. Encrypted transmission with a documented delivery trail supports all three.
Key Institutions
- • Texas Medical Center — world's largest medical complex
- • Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- • Texas Medical Board
- • Baylor Scott & White Health