Secure Document Destruction Services
Looking for Houston shredding services? Look no further than Nucore Medical Waste Services.
We provide comprehensive document shredding solutions that adhere to strict chain of custody standards and secure logistics, ensuring the utmost protection for your Houston-based company’s sensitive information. Our professional team will deliver a locked shred bin to your office and retrieve it according to your predetermined shredding schedule.
The healthcare industry is bound by strict regulations to safeguard personal identities, medical records, and financial details with utmost care. Non-compliance can result in significant penalties. Utilizing Nucore’s secure document shredding services will help your practice adhere to these essential legal standards.
You might be surprised by how many medical and business documents are legally required to be shredded and destroyed. In the medical and healthcare industry, nearly every document handled by practitioners or staff contains confidential data.
Beyond medical billing and payment records, many documents contain sensitive information that must be handled securely to remain compliant with federal and state regulations. The following documents require secure document destruction to protect patient privacy and reduce organizational risk.
Laws such as HIPAA, HITECH, and state medical record retention requirements dictate how long records must be stored and when secure document destruction is required.
When it comes to different medical records in blank, it isn’t just a good idea to shred those paper documents, printed pictures, and even hard drives of obsolete computers; facilities have a legal obligation to do so.
Nucore Medical Waste Services provides safe, secure medical document destruction that allows facilities to meet their legal obligations with a low-cost and reliable provider. We also provide certificates of destruction so that organizations and facilities can prove that they did what they were supposed to do.
Don’t worry about where and how you can deal with your medical document shredding. Contact us today to set up your personalized schedule.
It isn’t just the physical documents that are filed away in secure locations that must be dealt with properly; it is also the computer systems and hard drives that can be exploited.
Doing a simple reformat of a hard drive isn’t enough, as the data can still be reconstructed. Instead, hard drives must be rendered unrecoverable, and methods such as disintegration, pulverizing, melting, and even shredding of the hard drive itself are required to accomplish this legal requirement.
Nucore Medical Waste Services is your locally owned and operated service provider that offers as-needed document destruction. You may want to purge your paper documents a couple of times per year, or at another frequency, and we will provide you with the certificates of destruction for your records. Your liability and potential exposure of sensitive information of patients are too important to take this task lightly.
HITECH establishes protocols to safeguard the confidentiality and security of healthcare information, especially concerning its electronic transmission. The legislation promotes improved practices for the storage and disposal of Protected Health Information (PHI), including document shredding and medical record shredding.
These documents provide the legal proof that an organization has followed the compliance regulations. The chain of custody for sensitive data is properly handled, and it provides peace of mind to all patients that their data is handled properly.
Many people think that if they delete information from a hard drive, it is no longer there. The truth is that the data is still there, but the directory of where it is located is just removed. Only when the hard drive cannot be used as intended through destruction can you be sure that the data will not be access.
The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates the destruction or secure disposal of all medical records, both physical and digital. There are steep penalties for noncompliance of these regulations. The Health Information Technology for Economic & Clinical Health Act (HITECH) also provides regulations for the confidentiality and proper disposal of medical records in all forms.
While states may have longer periods of time that records must be kept secured, federal law mandates a minimum period of 6 years before destruction. In the case of minors, this period is extended until they reach a particular age, usually 18 or 21, plus an additional time period.
Because we are a locally operated medical waste disposal company, we will come as frequently as you need. While most tend to do their document shredding annually, others desire a more frequent schedule for liability purposes, space concerns, or other reasons.