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Vital Stats
HIPAA compliance with this product appears possible?: Yes.
Recommend for your HIPAA risk management needs?: Probably.
This is a basic review. It does not contain a final recommendation, caveats, or usage notes. For many professionals, however, the basic information may be sufficient to make an informed choice about this product.
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.
- The features and/or settings for this product are different for health care customers as compared to general customers.
- Often this means the product adjusts for health care customers in order to meet HIPAA requirements, and/or to offer features that are only useable by health care practices (e.g. Square only allows health care customers to run HSA and FSA cards.)
Our Progress Notes
Survey Monkey is a forms-creation tool that some clinicians use for intake forms and assessments. They offer a Business Associate Agreement, so HIPAA compliant use is possible. Their explanation of their own internal security and their suggestions (click here) to help you keep your clients’ information safe is written in plain language. It reiterates the point that HIPAA compliance isn’t just a “sign the BAA and you’re done” kind of deal.