Your patients trust you and your staff to keep their medical records completely confidential. Unfortunately, many medical care facilities do not handle their records disposal the right way, and their patients lose their trust in their healthcare providers. It is estimated that 160,000 patients have had their confidential medical information breached since 2009 because the facility did not correctly dispose of the records.
Many doctors and medical facilities have turned to Shred America to avoid mishandling the disposal of medical records and to ensure that they are HIPAA compliant. However, remaining compliant requires more than just hiring our services. Your medical workplace should:
Shred America can help your medical facility to keep a secure disposal line. We encourage our medical clients to implement a shred-all policy, which requires hard copy and digital documents all be shredded. To make this easier, we provide locked consoles for materials that are due to be shredded, and we shred everything on site in our state of the art trucks. It is our business to help keep you completely compliant with secure destruction requirements, and we take that task and your trust seriously.
Stop endangering your patients’ information and trust; call us today to set up a regular shredding schedule for your medical facility.