ClearXChange and HIPAA Compliance

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Vital Stats

HIPAA compliance with this product appears possible?: Yes.

Recommend for your HIPAA risk management needs?: Yes. There are some interesting differences from other payment services. Be sure to read the notes.

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# of Usage Notes: 0 view notes→

Relevant Product Characteristics

This product does not appear to have been designed specifically with healthcare in mind. Note that many products that are useful and appropriate for health care professionals are not designed specifically with health care in mind.

What Is This Product?

ClearXChange is like PayPal with a twist: instead of making payments through the ClearXChange website, you do so through your own online banking service. In other words, ClearXChange facilitates sending money from bank to bank through your online banking. Sounds neat!

You should know that financial institutions have certain limited exemptions from HIPAA, and those exemptions make it possible for us to use services like PayPal and ClearXChange.

The limitations on the exemption, however, are where we have to get picky. So the notes below will point out the ways in which we got picky about ClearXChange.

More Info

This product offers a free service tier or a free trial account:

We encourage all clinicians interested in this product to try out the free trial or experiment with the free tier to see if it suits your needs.

If you discover anything of concern that isn’t addressed in this review yet, please tell Liath about it at [email protected].

Click here for the free trial or free service tier information→. Important note about Business Associate Agreements: This product does not seem to offer a Business Associate Agreement for the free trial or free service tier. Do not use client information when testing the product.

Caveats

Caveats are criticsms of the company or product that we feel are relevant to your risk management or other important considerations.

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Notes

Notes cover points where the product can’t ensure compliance or ethical action for you. These help you know what your part of the compliance puzzle looks like when using this product. A high note count usually correlates with a feature-rich product, and not necessarily with a product that has problems.