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Protect Your Identity With Residential Shredding Service

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Every day of your life, you’re throwing unwanted stuff into the trash can. Most of it is genuinely trash—coffee grounds, remnants of meals, empty pet food cans and so forth. Along with that sort of trash, you’re ridding your home of paper clutter such as paid bills, store or ATM receipts, and junk mail. This paper clutter seems so worthless to you, it’s actually hard to imagine that someone might go through your truly nasty real garbage to find it, but the fact is that identity thieves will do just that!

Understanding HIPAA

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Here at Neighborhood Parcel, you might have noticed a couple of acronyms floating around when we mention our shredding service, namely FACTA and HIPAA. These are federal laws that deal with identity information and the protection of said information; FACTA stands for the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and HIPAA stands

HIPAA Medical File Shredding

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My Document Shredding a division of Biz International Corporation, would like to inform all medical practices in the Boston MA area of the new Amendments to HIPPA, (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), recently passed by Congress. These Amendments will dramatically increase liabilities related to improper disposal of health care information.

How To Shred Medical Patient’s Files

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Neighborhood Parcel offers Medical Files and Xray Shredding service Focus, it provides off-site medical file shredding service throughout the Boston, MA and Nashua, NH Metro Areas. Medical Files Shredding service you can trust! Medical practice managers concerned about HIPAA compliance, retain TrueShred to securely destroy patient records and shred other sensitive information.

Residential Shredding Service

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Residential customers can use our convenient paper shredding drop-off location for a fast and inexpensive way to safely destroy sensitive documents. Or, for large amounts, residential customers can arrange for our convenient mobile offsite shredding services. We make Shredding service fast, convenient and affordable. Best Choice for residential shredding service

What is Mass 201 CMR 17?

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In an effort to protect Massachusetts residents from the rising incidence of fraud and identity theft from data loss, the State of Massachusetts has implemented aggressive regulatory requirements to protect personal information. The state now requires mandatory compliance with 201 CMR 17.00 – Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth (also known as just 201 CMR 17, or the Massachusetts Privacy Law).

HIPAA Document Privacy

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Under the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, covered entities are obliged to observe proper methods of disposing protected health information (PHI), of any form. Appropriate measures of disposal are required to prevent and limit any unauthorized use and access to the information. Furthermore, covered entities handling electronic PHI are required to impose policies and procedures to facilitate the removal, termination and final disposal of PHI in electronic format including the storage media housing the information.

Hard Drive and Media Destruction

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Physical destruction of hard drives, tapes and media at our Tewksbury MA plant, logged by serial number and documented on a notarized Certificate of Destruction.