Nelson Mullins HIPAA Webinar
August 13, 2009
Session with leading information management attorney discusses updated security rules, tips on avoiding new enforcement actions, and benefits of RPost’s HIPAA-compliant encrypted email service
LOS ANGELES, CA—August 13, 2009 –
RPost®, the leader in value-added outbound messaging with its flagship Registered Email® service delivery proof, eSignOff™ electronic contract execution and Secu(R)mail™ encryption services, today announced that it will host a free live webinar to discuss new legal issues and business risks related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that resulted from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (”ARRA”). The webinar will be presented on Wednesday, August 19th at 2 p.m. eastern time, and repeated on Thursday, September 10th at the same time.
In this webinar, Jon Neiditz, Information Management Practice leader at the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, will decipher the new rules governing securing protected health information (PHI), the wide range of firms soon to be covered by HIPAA rules, the new enforcement actions and the major business risks associated with new breach notification standards. Neiditz will also discuss his firm’s review of RPost’s SecuRmail™ service, a HIPAA-compliant encrypted email service. In his firm’s review, which is available by contacting This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Neiditz states, “RPost email services can be used to deliver documents electronically in accord with the technical safeguard standards of HIPAA relating to the security of electronic communication of electronic protected health information.”
Zafar Khan, CEO of RPost, will provide a brief on RPost’s encrypted email service and discuss who is using it and why they have selected use of RPost’s service versus alternatives in the marketplace. RPost’s encrypted email services now also permit the recipient to reply to a received email, encrypted in compliance with HIPAA, without any recipient complexity or extra software/settings.
Bolton & Company, one of the largest employee-owned insurance brokers in the United States, recently switched to RPost’s service from a competing provider. “With RPost’s all-in-one offering, we were able to implement one service to give both our benefits department encrypted email for HIPAA compliance and our commercial lines Registered Email service to protect against email disputes that create E&O exposure," remarks Jason Baltazar, Vice President of Information Technology at Bolton & Company. "Our benefits department switched to RPost's encrypted email service due to the simplicity for both sender and receiver. In the past, we were using an email encryption service that would require the recipient to click-through to a website to collect their email. Bottom line, people didn't do it, rendering our previous system virtually worthless. Now, with RPost's encrypted email service, we have both legal proof records of delivery of the encrypted email right to their mailbox, with further proof of compliance with security and privacy requirements, all with a high response rate as there are no extra steps for the recipient."
Attend this webinar and you will learn:
-How if you have been a business associate covered only by contract, you will soon be covered by specific HIPAA regulation with expanded powers of enforcement
-About the new federal security breach notification rules, and how different they are from all of the state laws to which you are now subject
-About HIPAA-compliant technical safeguards • About how RPost's HIPAA-compliant encrypted email service can cut cost and improve satisfaction
Who should attend?
-- Operations, compliance and IT directors at HIPAA ‘business associates’ (e.g., IT vendors, consultants, and service providers such as benefits insurance brokerages and billing, debt collections, transcription and copying companies operating with protected health information).
