How to Make HIPAA Forms with Secure Forms WordPress Plugin

Creating HIPAA forms on your WordPress site is essential if you’re handling protected health information. Ensuring compliance can protect you from hefty fines and bolster the trust of your users. Today, we’ll walk you through the steps to create HIPAA forms using Forminator Forms by WPMUDEV and Secure Forms by ClikIT.

Understanding HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data. Any business that deals with protected health information (PHI) must ensure that all the required physical, network, and data security measures are in place and followed.

Key Elements of HIPAA Compliance:

  • Encryption: PHI must be encrypted during transmission and storage.
  • Access Control: Only authorized individuals should have access to PHI.
  • Audit Controls: Mechanisms to record and examine access and other activity in systems containing PHI.
  • Integrity Controls: Security measures to ensure that PHI is not altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner.

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating HIPAA Forms

Forminator Forms is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to create custom forms with ease. Here’s how to use it to create HIPAA forms:

  1. Navigate to WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New Plugin.

2. Search for “Forminator Forms” and click Install, then Activate.

3. Go to Forminator > Forms

4. Create a form

5. Add all the fields you want to your form. Start by choosing from text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns. Customize each field by adding labels, placeholder text and validation rules. Order your fields in a logical way so the user experience is smooth and intuitive. You can also add conditional logic to show/hide fields based on user input.

6. Install and Activate Secure Forms by going back to the Add Plugin page

7. Agree to sharing your site information with us.

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8. Once installed & Activated, you will go through the 4 step wizard. In step 1 below, you will select the plan you want.

9. Here is where you will get to request your APi key and agree to our terms of service

10. Navigate to your email address and copy the API key

11. Paste in the API key and validate it

12. Select if you need a BAA signed or if you do not need a BAA

13. After this, click on Select Forms and select your Forminator Forms that you wish to be covered by Secure Forms WordPress plugin. Once you click on “Submit”, all submissions for those forms will be routed through Secure Forms API.

14. Using Gutenberg Block Editor, you can select the form Block & select the form you wish to put on the page on the right hand side.

15. Alternatively to above, you can copy the shortcode in Forminator & add the form in Elementor or another page builder of your choice.

16. Once you start receiving submissions, go to View Submissions and you can view all of your submissions you receive.

16. Once you start getting submissions, you can check to see which users have viewed the forms. This is to maintain compliance to keep track of who has viewed sensitive information.

Conclusion

That’s it! Hopefully this guide was helpful in setting up your HIPAA compliant forms on your site using the Secure Forms WordPress plugin.

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Keep your customers’ trust intact by securely handling sensitive information, ensuring compliance with HIPAA regulations, and freeing up your time to focus on growing your business.

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