The importance of self-care during a pandemic

When you’re in a caring profession, keeping yourself strong can only happen through intentional self-care. And now, when so much care is needed, is a good time to consider how you can care for yourself. Hushmail partner Melvin Varghese of Selling the Couch has some ideas.

Using a forwarding address can make it easier to identify and file your emails, and it doesn’t cost anything. You can set up a separate address for your administrative emails without having to use one of your user accounts.

Monitoring clients for increased depression, anxiety, and stress is more important now than ever. Screenings are inexpensive, readily available tools that can help you spot mental health issues in your clients. We offer several digital versions that deliver a score upon completion.

One of the best ways to develop the new practices needed for managing your practice during the pandemic is to listen to colleagues and discover what’s working for them. In this post, we’re presenting a customer case study that explores how an optometrist safely reopened his practice.

Your website is more than a brochure for your practice. When it’s done right, it’s your patient hub. Hushmail partner Great Dental Websites explains how to create a user-friendly dental website.

You built a great form. Now share it with your colleagues! With form sharing, instead of rebuilding the same form for everyone in your office and reaching your plan’s maximum number of forms, you can build one form that everyone in your practice can send.

Hushmail’s Jarred Bolen joined Dr. Neil Gajjar for a comprehensive webinar provided by the Academy of General Dentistry to help dental practices stay connected using HIPAA-compliant technology during the pandemic. In this post, we provide a recap of the webinar and a link to the replay.

We’re presenting a customer case study that explores how dentist Dr. Neil Gajjar safely continued providing emergency care at the height of the pandemic and recently reopened his elective services using web forms as part of his strategy to maintain safe contact with his patients.

Whether you have an optometry, dental, counseling, or other healthcare practice, you’re likely considering how you can safely reopen. Web forms can help you make that transition.

Hushmail isn’t just compliant with HIPAA. Our services also comply with the EU’s GDPR, Canada’s PIPEDA and provincial privacy laws, among many others. Complying with these laws helps us help you protect your clients’ data.

Are your emails landing in your clients’ junk folders? It could have to do with a missing SPF record. In most cases, setting an SPF record is a simple task you can do yourself.

Do you know how HIPAA rules apply to your new virtual practice and affect how you use email to communicate with clients during the pandemic? Hushmail’s Jarred Bolen talked to Therapy Reimagined on their podcast and answered many of the questions therapists have about HIPAA as they set up their virtual offices.

Getting a functional virtual office up and running takes some time and you might be tempted to take shortcuts such as sending PDFs of your web forms instead of using our online form builder. In today’s post, we’ll compare sending a PDF versus building a new form, and explain why the latter will save you time in the long run.

Good communication is essential. These forms will help explain your preferences as a practitioner, educate your clients about different methods of communication and their risks, and get their consent on the decisions you both decide upon.

HIPAA requirements may have been relaxed during the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you should stop caring about security. With so many clients going online for their care, securing protected health information (PHI) is still important, perhaps more than ever.

Do you have questions about your new Hushmail account? We’ve put together this post that’s full of the information you need to get started.

PDFs are here. We’re pleased to announce the most recent update to Hush Secure Forms. Now, when you receive a form submission in your inbox, it will come with an attached PDF that you can print, download to your computer, or upload to your EHR software.

We’re going over some extra security features we provide, such as two-step verification, and precautions you can take, such as using a password manager, that will ensure your emails and web forms are as secure as possible.