HIPAA, Telecommunications Redundancy, & Conduit Exception (Part 3)

This article discusses the HIPAA Conduit Exception Rule, which allows healthcare providers to conduct business with certain vendors without requiring a BAA (business associate agreement). Examples of such vendors include mail carriers and phone carriers. The article also highlights key considerations when choosing a telecommunications provider for healthcare systems, emphasizing dependability, failover and redundancy, easy change management, and coverage. It mentions Bandwidth as a reliable telephony partner that can provide all the telephony needs of healthcare systems.