HIPAA from day one: what your BAA actually covers
Growth Marketer · · 5 min read
We sign the Business Associate Agreement at registration. Here is what that means for your practice, in plain language.
A Business Associate Agreement is the contract that lets a vendor handle protected health information on your behalf. Without one, putting patient data into any third-party tool is a problem. With CarelinkMD, the BAA is signed during registration, before you upload a single form.
In plain terms, the BAA commits us to safeguard the patient data that flows through intake, to use it only to provide the service, and to notify you if anything ever goes wrong. It also defines who is responsible for what, so there is no ambiguity if an auditor asks.
Compliance is not a setting you turn on later. Because the agreement is in place from day one, every form you digitize and every signature you collect is covered from the first submission.
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