Is encryption used for internal or external transmissions?
Our systems secure all passwords as encrypted data. In many of our systems, patient identifiers, clinical data, and patient records are stored as compressed records, rendering them unreadable without access to the application that services the records. When data is transmitted from the provider to the HDX EDI Switch or vise versa, all real-time messages are encrypted in our network. Many of the payers we access from our HDX EDI Switch use private point to point lines in lieu of encryption between our switch and their operations. However, our payer customers have the option to use our infrastructure to receive and transmit encrypted messages by using an HDX Network Gateway at their network point of access. Currently, batch transactions are not transmitted as encrypted data. However, all these transmissions are done point to point over secured network circuits.
