HIPAA 101
At your most recent doctor’s visit, you likely signed a HIPAA form. HIPAA includes important safeguards that protect the privacy, security and integrity of your protected health information – essentially, any personally identifiable information that appears in medical records, conversations between healthcare staff regarding patients and billing information. Here at Abridge, we take your information’s security and privacy seriously because we’re committed to helping you better understand and follow through on your health. As with anything in the healthcare space, we also get a fair amount of questions about HIPAA.
Safeguarding Your Healthcare Data and Conversations
At your most recent doctor’s visit, you likely signed a HIPAA form. HIPAA includes important safeguards that protect the privacy, security and integrity of your protected health information – essentially, any personally identifiable information that appears in medical records, conversations between healthcare staff regarding patients and billing information. Here at Abridge, we take your information’s security and privacy seriously because we’re committed to helping you better understand and follow through on your health. As with anything in the healthcare space, we also get a fair amount of questions about HIPAA.
How Abridge protects data and privacy
Abridge is a patient-facing tool. Patients can collect information about their own health, and have full control over the information they collect. Information collected by a patient is not regulated by HIPAA, and therefore any recordings you make with Abridge are not regulated by HIPAA.
But we hold ourselves to the highest possible standards: We actively safeguard health data with HIPAA principles as well as HIPAA-compliant products and services. Likewise, all of our solutions that involve providers are fully compliant with HIPAA.
All data is transmitted through secure channels: When you record a doctor’s visit with Abridge, that data is immediately encrypted using best-practice encryption standards. Abridge then stores the recording securely in encrypted HIPAA-compliant servers.
We also apply state-of-the-art security policies so that all health data is protected throughout storage, processing and viewing.
Abridge also has strict internal access-control policies to prevent privacy violations. When you use Abridge to record a doctor’s appointment, you are in control of your data: We never share information without prior consent.
Abridge also has strict internal access-control policies to prevent privacy violations. When you use Abridge to record a healthcare appointment, you are in control of your data: We never share information without prior consent.
At Abridge, we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of patient and clinician trust. And you can delete your account at any time.
A bridge between access and security
Data security should never be a trade-off. That’s why we apply HIPAA security standards to all of the data we collect, even if it doesn’t apply to our services. Physicians benefit from better documentation while patients can stay on top of their health, diagnoses and prescriptions.
Abridge bridges the gap between knowledge and peace of mind on one side and data security and privacy on the other. We believe you can have it all.
