FTC — Privacy by Design

max.md offers a proven four year history of delivering secure healthcare electronic communications products. The design specification requires compliance with HIPAA and HITECH, while also preceding and exceeding NHIN Direct as well as FTC Privacy by Design.

“Industry must do better. For every business, privacy should be a basic consideration – similar to keeping track of costs and revenues, or strategic planning. To further this goal, this report proposes a normative framework for how companies should protect consumers’ privacy. This proposal is intended to inform policymakers, including Congress, as they develop solutions, policies, and potential laws governing privacy, and guide and motivate industry as it develops more robust and effective best practices and self-regulatory guidelines. The framework is designed to serve as a policy vehicle for approaching privacy, but it includes elements that reflect longstanding Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) law.”

Read the full FTC Staff Report: "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR BUSINESSES AND POLICYMAKERS”

The referenced 106 page document describes the US Government Federal Trade Commission’s Privacy by Design Initiative. All of the max.md suite of secure communications products already meet and exceed the guidelines articulated in this framework document. With a four year track record of providing deliverable solutions in accordance with HIPAA, HITECH, NHIN Direct and now the FTC standards, we have pioneered the full spectrum development of healthcare electronic communications.