If your business operates within the healthcare sector, GFI Software provides user-friendly solutions to assist you in maintaining compliance with crucial data protection laws. Organizations must exercise utmost caution when handling emails and faxes containing sensitive personal details, aligning their operations with respective data protection laws in their region. GFI Software has three solutions that will strengthen your compliance – so you can send sensitive information safely, store it securely, and prove that it remains secure.

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GFI FaxMaker – the safer alternative to the fax machine

Sending paper messages via a fax machine presents a number of risks: Is the machine in a secure location? Did the documents arrive OK? Has anyone else seen what’s been sent or received? But problems can be avoided by GFI FaxMaker™, which lets you send and receive faxes from your email, ensuring compliance with data protection laws such as HIPAA, GDPR, PHIPA, and the Australian Privacy Act. Paper-free faxes are faster and cheaper as well as being more secure. You can also back up and search for faxes in the same way that emails are stored and retrieved.

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GFI Archiver – a complete and secure archive for all your emails

This email archiving solution helps you to meet the growing number of regulations on compliance, eDiscovery, and other data legislation. It can also help to protect you from complaints and lawsuits. The solution’s auditing functionality ensures that stored emails are genuine and have not been tampered with. Cost-effective and easy to manage, GFI Archiver™ also significantly reduces demands on Exchange Server and offers a wealth of wider benefits.

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GFI LanGuard - patch management and vulnerability assessment solution

Ensuring the security of personal and sensitive patient data is a universal requirement, irrespective of the size of your healthcare organization. GFI LanGuard™ offers comprehensive vulnerability management coupled with extensive reporting, serving as a highly cost-effective solution to aid in your data protection compliance efforts across a myriad of regulations, including HIPAA, GDPR, the Australian Privacy Act, BDSG (Germany), LGPD (Brazil), PDPA (Thailand), and potential upcoming regulations in countries like India and South Korea.

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Benefits of electronic faxing in the healthcare industry
Benefits of electronic faxing in the healthcare industry

Even though data regulations have gained more importance in recent years with higher consumer awareness and sharper penalties, the healthcare industry still has much more to worry about than most traditional businesses.

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Improve COVID-19 response with simple and efficient digital faxing
Improve COVID-19 response with simple and efficient digital faxing

In this paper, we’ll examine why faxing persists in healthcare, the limitations of paper-based faxing (which remains the dominant form of faxing), and the benefits of digital faxing to overcome those limitations.

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Issues related to the use of faxing and security and compliance in healthcare brief
Issues related to the use of faxing and security and compliance in healthcare brief

It is estimated that about 75 per cent of all medical communications happen by fax. Healthcare providers and institutions need to be aware of the ongoing security and compliance issues related to sharing health information and faxing, and to plan accordingly.

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Meeting healthcare compliance and legal  needs with GFI fax and archiving software
Meeting healthcare compliance and legal needs with GFI fax and archiving software

Faxing has many reasons why it will continue to be a fixture in healthcare information systems for some time. However, there is no reason why it must continue to be a manual or physical process involving paper being fed into a machine by a trained professional.

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Everything You Need to Know: NIS2 and Healthcare Data Security

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Explore the essentials of NIS2 compliance in the healthcare sector and uncover how NIS2 standards are crucial for protecting patient data amidst the growing digital threats. We also introduce how tools like GFI LanGuard can aid in navigating the compliance pathway, making the journey toward enhanced data security more straightforward for healthcare providers.

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