As a healthcare professional, you most certainly are familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as regulations you must follow according to the rule. However, HITRUST is not as well-known, so you may be asking yourself, “What is HITRUST certification anyway, and how does it affect me, my practice and our marketing efforts?”

Digital advertising is not what it used to be, especially in the healthcare industry.

Schools have an obligation to protect the privacy of students and families, but in today’s technology-driven world, it has become a challenge. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) outlines how administrators and faculty can secure families’ private information, but increased cyberthreats and cyberattacks have posed a challenge for both K-12 and secondary schools. 

Phoenix Innovate (PI) is proud to announce that it has been named a 2023 Innovator of the Year by Printing Impressions, a top source for in-depth coverage of the graphic arts, technology and commercial print industries.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been in place to protect patients since 1996, but technology and personal data access has expanded exponentially since then. Today, digital tracking technologies and other online communications can create a “fingerprint” or digital ID of a person’s healthcare digital interactions, which expose sensitive information that has allowed some marketers to leverage this private data to achieve their objectives. 

Medical practices and insurance companies can face devastating ramifications when private data is released due to data breaches, including thousands of dollars in fines, millions of dollars in business loss, diminishing of the business’s reputation and the stress of having patients’ health care information compromised.

After joining the Phoenix Innovate (PI) team in 2019 as the company's Chief Technology and Compliance Officer, Michael Spalding is now the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer.

Did you know that a cyber attack happens every 39 seconds? This disturbing fact illustrates why earning HITRUST CSF® Certification is such an important accomplishment for Phoenix Innovate (PI).

Phoenix Innovate is excited to announce that key implemented systems have earned HITRUST certification. Because Phoenix Innovate is a full-service marketing firm with solutions that require the handling of sensitive client and member data for complex compliance, regulatory and privacy requirements, this certification is further proof of the company’s dedication to client data protection.

High-profile data breaches expose how vulnerable even organizations with sophisticated IT departments can be to attacks from outside. But you don’t have to be a large organization to be concerned about  data privacy.  Protecting data for nonprofits is just as important and can be especially risky when dealing with marketing vendors.