12 Question Guide To Buying A HIPAA-Compliant Secure Messaging App

In today’s connected hospital, the way doctors, nurses and other clinicians communicate and collaborate is changing. Outdated communication methods (i.e. pagers, email and landlines) are not compliant with HIPAA, and also lead to inefficient clinical workflows, which can result in a decrease in patient care quality and clinician productivity. With more and more pressure to deliver high quality care while reducing costs, hospitals across the U.S. could benefit from a solution that helps drive increased workflow efficiencies, which, in turn, can lead to reduced costs and improved patient outcomes.

Enter clinical communication and collaboration. Gartner defines this market as the convergence of legacy inpatient communications systems with nexus technologies (cloud, information, mobile and social) at a time when there is market momentum and real rewards exist for improved care quality and the patient experience. In simpler terms, clinical communication and collaboration solutions provide a platform for doctors, nurses and other members of a patients care team to collaborate and drive increased workflow efficiencies, improved patient outcomes and reduced costs.

A critical aspect of true clinical communication and collaboration is deploying a HIPAA compliant secure messaging solution. Read on to discover 12 questions hospitals should be asking vendors when looking for the perfect HIPAA compliant secure messaging solution to drive clinical communication and collaboration.