HIPAA Compliant Payment Processing: What Healthcare Clinics Must Know
HIPAA compliant payment processing is not about how money moves. It’s about how patient-linked payment data is created, stored, transmitted, and accessed across your systems. If your clinic, hospital, or healthcare platform accepts online, in-office, mobile, or kiosk payments and you are not completely certain where protected health information (PHI) appears in that workflow, now... Continue reading
Is GCP HIPAA Compliant? What Google Covers — and What You’re Still Responsible For
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is HIPAA-capable, but not HIPAA compliant by default. GCP can be used to store and process protected health information (PHI) only if a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is in place and the environment is configured correctly. Most HIPAA violations involving cloud platforms are caused by customer misconfiguration, not by failures... Continue reading
Are Google Forms HIPAA Compliant?
No — Google Forms are not HIPAA compliant for collecting protected health information (PHI). If you’re asking whether Google Forms are HIPAA compliant, you’re asking the right question. Using the wrong form tool to collect PHI is one of the most common causes of HIPAA violations, especially when forms are used without proper access controls,... Continue reading
Email vs Text: Security, Compliance, and What HIPAA Actually Requires
When organizations compare email vs text, the discussion often begins with operational efficiency, without first determining whether the communication method can meet HIPAA Security Rule requirements. However, once electronic protected health information (ePHI) is created, transmitted, or referenced, the method of communication must be evaluated strictly through a HIPAA compliance lens, not preference or habit.... Continue reading
