CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- PostX, the leader in the delivery of encrypted email communications for businesses and consumers, today announced its newest customer in the health care sector, Mercy Health Partners (MHP), a recognized leader in providing quality, cost-effective health care. Mercy Health Partners, accountable to the newest HIPAA regulatory compliance, has deployed PostX’s signature platform to ensure the fast, safe, encrypted delivery of all sensitive email communications.
PostX is the only email encryption provider to be endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) to provide a standardized secure messaging solution to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations, recommended to the entire AHA network of 37,000 individual health care providers and more than 5,000 hospitals.
“There is so much sensitive information being processed, stored and distributed in health care today. The challenge is to effectively protect this information while making it accessible for patient care to internal or external clinicians,” said Denny McLean, security administrator for Mercy Health Partners. “Selecting PostX to deploy a secure email platform within our network was an easy choice. The technology is flexible enough to allow us to communicate with our varying recipients without constant maintenance, add- ons or disturbance to our constituents and customers.”
PostX’s Messaging Application Platform (MAP) is an easy-to-use, intuitive, cost-effective solution that provides customers with a solution for enterprise-class security and policy enforcement, as well as powerful encryption capabilities to secure confidential emails. The PostX product is the only email encryption technology that enables encrypted emails to be sent and received anywhere, to anyone regardless of operating system, email client or firewalls. It also allows messages to be read by authorized email recipients without requiring any additional software downloads or plug-ins.
“There are several industries that have felt the organizational impact of new privacy regulations and they have been a resource drain, specifically for health care and financial organizations,” said Scott Olechowski, vice president of product strategy and development, PostX. “We strive to solve the HIPAA compliance issues plaguing organizations like Mercy Health Partners in a cost-effective, simplistic manner, so that they can rest easy and get back to doing what they do best -- serving their patients.”
PostX’s solution is the most complete stand alone platform that allows health care organizations to tailor the system to meet their most pressing needs, including auto-enrollment, advanced provisioning and an innovative PostX HIPAA Lexicon that encrypts emails based on specific criteria.
“One leaked email won’t just change an individual’s life,” said Olechowski. “It can lead to the erosion of an organizations’ brand, patient loyalty and trust, not to mention the possible costly sanctions, fines and lawsuits.”
About Mercy Health Partners
Mercy Health Partners (MHP) is a recognized leader in providing quality, cost-effective healthcare and is a regional leader in collaboration with other community organizations to meet community needs. MHP is a preferred provider in the majority of health insurance plans, MHP actively works to control healthcare costs through managed care contracts and insurance initiatives.
Mercy Health Partners encompasses seven acute care hospitals and offers a medical staff of over 2,400 members to support the comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services.
About PostX
PostX ensures encrypted electronic delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships. The company’s proprietary technology provides easy-to-use, enterprise-class encrypted communication for regulatory compliance and cost reduction initiatives. Organizations immediately benefit from an increase in effective communications with their employees, partners and customers.
The company is the exclusive encrypted email provider endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), to provide a standardized secure messaging solution to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations, recommended to the entire AHA network of 37,000 individual health care providers and more than 5,000 hospitals. Additionally, PostX is a founding member and represented on the Board of Governance of the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF; www.tecf.org), a cross-industry association founded to eradicate spoofing and phishing.
The company is headquartered in the U.S. in Cupertino, CA. PostX partners and customers include ABN AMRO, Allstate, Charles Schwab, Children’s Hospital, Citi, DirectTV Enterprises, HSBC, IBM, IronPort, Marsh Inc., Mayo Clinic, Mercy Health Partners, Sendmail, Strongmail and the United States Postal Service (USPS). For more information visit www.postx.com.
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