Medical Record Shredding

Stay Compliant With All Privacy Legislation

Protected Health Information (PHI) is housed in abundance by healthcare professionals in hospitals and other medical facilities. PHI is some of the most private information that an individual will have over the span of their life so it is vital that it is protected at all times. That is part of the reason why HIPAA was enacted by the United States Congress. HIPAA requires medical staff to take special precautions when disposing of PHI to ensure that the patient’s privacy remains intact.

Regulations laid out by HIPAA emphasize the need for healthcare facilities to instruct their employees on best practices when it comes time to properly dispose of any protected patient records. If an organization fails to provide its staff members with the proper training and the PHI is leaked or stolen, it could result in legal ramifications and sizable fines for those involved. By trusting PROSHRED® Cleveland for your facility’s secure document shredding, you can rest assured that you are doing everything required to follow HIPAA requirements for medical records disposal.

Who Can Benefit From Medical Record Destruction?

PROSHRED^® Cleveland provides medical record destruction services for:

• Doctors Offices
• Dentists Offices
• Walk-in Clinics
• Hospitals
• Surgery Centers
• Pharmacies
• Nursing Homes
• Chiropractors
• Physiotherapists
• Psychiatrists & Psychotherapists
• Naturopaths
• Other healthcare centers

Secure Destruction for Non-Paper Medical Materials

As many healthcare professionals know, protected health information isn’t exclusive to paper documents. Those non-paper materials such as prescription bottles, product packaging, medical devices, and other items can pose just as much of a threat to patient privacy and are not as easily disposed of. Fortunately, items that cannot be shredded through traditional means can be securely disposed of in other ways.

Obviously, these items should not be tossed into a dumpster with other refuse which is why PROSHRED® Cleveland provides a secure product destruction service. Using this service will allow you to incinerate confidential materials that can’t be put through a shredding machine, taking the items out of circulation for good.

Regularly Scheduled Mobile Document Destruction

Our fleet of mobile shredding trucks provides the most convenient on-site shredding services for our clients regardless of whether your organization needs a one-time cleanup or regularly scheduled shredding. PROSHRED® Cleveland’s experienced team will work with you to create a mobile shredding schedule that fits your facility’s unique needs to ensure that all of your shredding requirements are met on a regular basis without the need to contact us for each pickup.

The industrial shredding machines housed within our state-of-the-art mobile shredding trucks are capable of destroying a large volume of documents in a matter of minutes, leaving the files unrecoverable. In an effort to guarantee that your sensitive documents are only handled by members of your staff, PROSHRED® has developed a hands-free shredding process that you can witness from start to finish. Upon conclusion of each visit, we will present you with a Certificate of Destruction that serves as legal proof that all materials were properly disposed of.