If you would like to participate in beta testing, please submit a support ticket and let us know you’d like to be included. More Than a HIPAA Forms Plugin…   Akashic is a patient-centered, real-time healthcare coordination platform & patient portal embedded within an organization’s own WordPress domain.

Ed Paulsen — June, 18 2026

HIPAA Forms plugin release version 3.3.0 is a major re-work of both the plugin and the API. This release includes many major updates to sanitization, json handling and security hardening as well as updates needed for better PHP 8.x compatibility. We apologize for the small amount of downtime the API experienced last week as we […]

Ed Paulsen — June, 18 2026

Patient testimonials and reviews can help convey a level of trust to potential new patients and many digital marketing professionals highly recommend displaying testimonials on your website. BUT HOW DOES HIPAA APPLY TO PATIENT TESTIMONIALS? In 2012 a physical therapy provider in Los Angeles was found to have impermissibly disclosed numerous individuals’ protected health information […]

Ed Paulsen — March, 27 2019

What exactly IS a HIPAA COMPLIANT WEBSITE and do you even need one? By the way HIPAA stands for HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT so it’s spelled “HIPAA”, not “HIPPA”. If you’ve been spelling it wrong don’t worry, we still type it wrong ourselves sometimes. The term “HIPAA compliant website” is a little ambiguous. […]

Ed Paulsen — November, 27 2018