We are thrilled to announce that BoldSign is now fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA is a set of regulations designed to safeguard the privacy and security of patients’ confidential health information. Achieving HIPAA compliance is a significant milestone in our journey to enhance the trust and confidence our users place in BoldSign.
What is this certification and why does it matter?
HIPAA compliance ensures that our customers in the healthcare industry can use BoldSign to access and handle documents with their patients’ data securely and legally for electronic signature processes.
How does this certification benefit you?
For handling sensitive data like Protected Health Information (PHI), trust tools that meet your high privacy and security standards. BoldSign’s HIPAA certification delivers these key benefits:
- Business associate agreements (BAA): If your organization handles PHI on behalf of a Covered Entity, you can sign the BAA with BoldSign to certify the compliance with HIPAA regulations.
- Enhanced security and privacy: In BoldSign, your data is protected by high security and privacy standards in the industry.
- Improved customer trust: Customers are increasingly concerned about how their data is being used and protected. By complying with data security and privacy regulations, you can show your customers that you take their privacy seriously.
- Data storage location: BoldSign is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure servers in the US East data center. This provides the highest level of assurance that your data is safe and secure.
- Uptime and data availability: We are almost having no downtime and we have almost 99.99% uptime record. You can view our uptime status form here: BoldSign Status.
- User authentication: BoldSign supports two-factor authentication (2FA) and configuring SSO for accessing the accounts in secured way.
- IP restrictions: BoldSign supports limiting access to your BoldSign account with predefined IP address list. So no one can access your account from any other devices.
- Data security: We use strong encryption standards to protect your data when it is in transit between our app and the server. Your documents are also stored and encrypted using AES 256-bit encryption. For more information about the security policies, please visit our BoldSign Security Policies Page – Use link in the BoldSign Security Policies.
- Audits: BoldSign upholds HIPAA compliance through routine audits, yearly risk assessments, and active disaster recovery plan maintenance.
- Employee training: BoldSign prioritizes your privacy with annual HIPAA training for all employees. Our team respects your boundaries and only accesses your account when you request help.
Conclusion
We actively enhance our systems for ultimate data protection. If you have any questions about our HIPAA compliance or our security and compliance standards, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team.
