Protect your website and protect your patients’ personal information with Vanguard’s suite of security features for medical practice websites and online patient forms. Our PHI Security Suite offers the highest meaningful level of internet security, satisfying and surpassing HIPAA standards. This program is available as part of our MedMarketLink program or available as an add-on when we manage forms on your existing website.
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Standard |
PHI Security Suite |
Security
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Reactive |
Proactive, real time analysis
We automatically protect against a range of threats: cross site scripting, SQL injection, comment spam, excessive bot crawling, email harvesters, and more.
Our software uses the collective intelligence of web communities to get smarter. The network automatically learns from every new attack and then shares that information with the rest of the community. The system is continually learning to give you immediate protection.
Our system uses threat data from a variety of sources to build a reputation for every visitor online. This allows us to block the threats before it reaches your website. Reputation-based security provides a first line of defense for your website.
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HTTPS |
Little or no HTTPS |
HTTPS everywhere
While this video may be longer than you care to watch, suffice it to say that Google, the EFF, and other thought leaders strongly encourage this practice.
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Encryption Technology |
Little or no encryption |
Cutting edge 2048 bit encryption keys
This video gives you an idea of how strong our 2048 bit keys are.
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Website Backups |
Limited or no backups |
Daily Automatic Third Party Backups
We contract with a third party service to provide complete and daily automatic bacups. These backups allow remediation of possible service interruptions, such as malfunction, error, breach, or other issue interfering with the proper operation of your website. These backups allow us to roll back the clock to any point in time to recover all data and quickly restore functionality.
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Patient Confidence |
Little or no assurance |
Constant protection, even at coffee shops
Show your patients that you are protecting their information on every web page click. Give your patients peace of mind, even when they visit your website from hotels, coffe shops, airports and other public wifi networks
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Online Patient Communications & Forms |
Limited and less secure |
Secure online appointment requests & internet registrations for new patients
Secure Online Appointment Requests
Many patients aren't comfortable requesting an appointment online when a website isn't secured. Our https protected online appointment requests make your practice the more convenient option for patients and help free up your administrative staff to perform other important tasks.
Online Patient Intake Forms Made Easy
Reduce administrative time and streamline patient check-ins by directing patients to complete medical history forms and registration materials online before their appointment.
No more paper or fax machines
Patients can easily select the form(s) they need to complete on your website, fill and sign them electronically and submit them securely to your office. Encryption of completed forms and PHI during transmission and storage ensures your forms are HIPAA compliant.
Administrators are notified of completed forms via email, but no form information is included to protect PHI. To view the forms, office personnel simply log into their online dashboard where they retrieve completed forms to upload to each patient’s EMR profile.
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Online Payments |
Credit card fees + costly transaction fees |
No transaction fees
Allow your patients the convenience of paying online, right through your website. You can keep your existing credit card processor, or we can help you obtain a new one. Unlike many others, we do not charge any transaction fees for this service, saving you money on every transaction.*
See it working here: http://trmbaby.com/for-patients/pay-bill-online/
*Vanguard does not charge any additional transaction fees; credit card processing fees still apply through your card processor.
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Google Boost |
No boost |
In 2014, Google announced it would increase rankings for secure websites
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Search-Engine Optimization (SEO) |
Standard SEO practices |
Extended SEO benefits
More and more web companies are providing basic SEO. While our MedMarketLink program provides advanced SEO, our PHI Security Suite enables additional benefits. In addition to the boost from HTTPS everywhere, faster websites mobile optimizations mean even more SEO benefits for PHI Security Suite medical practices.
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Website Load Times |
Standard page load times |
Twice as fast, on average
Web visitors demand a fast and responsive website. That's why the back-end performance of a website directly impacts search engine rankings. The back end includes the web servers, the network connections, the use of CDNs, and the back-end application and database servers, often culminating in the "Time To First Byte" (TTFB). Improvements typically involve CDNs, optimizing application code, optimizing database queries, and ensuring fast and responsive web servers.
Our practices don't need to be bothered with these details. We manage all of these systems to ensure maximum performance. Our PHI Security Suite provides the ability to implement additional speed improvements, such as SPDY.
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HIPAA & HITECH |
Practice at risk |
Extended HIPAA / HITECH protections
Encrypting website communications with HTTPS provides additional benefits in the event of a breach. Since the attacker has a low probability of intercepting the HTTPS communications, the practice may be relieved of many burdens that it would otherwise suffer.
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Mobile Optimization |
Standard mobile performance |
Improved mobile performance
More and more patients access medical websites from their phones and tablets. When we implement our PHI Security Suite, we are also able to enable additional optimizations for mobile visitors. This will improve performance, especially for patients with poor data connections, older phones, or with limited reception.
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Content Distribution Network (CDN) |
Additional Cost |
Improves performance globally, with no extra cost
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Disaster Plan |
No plan |
Prepared response and assistance, should a security breach ever occur
An often overlooked aspect of security is having a plan in place when something goes wrong. Despite some of the most advanced security systems in the world, even major banks have fallen victim to security breaches. Our PHI Security Suite offers a response plan and assistance in the unfortunate event of a security breach.
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