On-Site Destruction of Hard Drives

The destruction of hard drives is something that is critial and crucial to keeping your employees and your clients identities safe. It is not good enough anymore to just drop your computer or hard drives into the land fill. A safer bet is to have your hard drives destroyed. There are several options to destroy your hard drives. The safest option is to have them destroyed or shredded. It is as simple as calling our office and letting us know you have hard drive destruction needs. We just completed a job for a large client where we destroyed over 1000 hard drives that they had accumulated over 5 years. We had the entire job completed in under 2 hours.

Why you should outsource Document Destruction

Outsourcing is an easy and economical decision to make when it comes to your on-site document shredding needs. NAID (National Assoc. Information Destruction) members provide convenient locked security containers to collect all your confidential documents. The data is destroyed fast and staples, paper clips, film, dvd, and cd's are destroyed with ease. It frees your valuable employees to do their real job. It is cost effective.

Office shredders, on the other hand, are just bad investments. Why, you ask? Let's dicsuss. First of all, you need to go out and purchase one. They are messy and need to be replaced often. They cannot handle staples, film, dvd's, or cd's. Office shredders also take time away from your employees doing their job. Worst of all, office shredders are not consistently used by your employees, creating a "risky situation."

Selecting Incred-A-Shred for all of your shredding needs gives you "Piece of Mind."

Shredding Medical and Dental Records

Ensuring that medical and dental records are destroyed properly is vital to ensuring your identify is kept confidential. Protected Health Information (PHI) is the classification which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given to personal patient information for which unauthorized release is now a criminal offense. PHI includes diagnosis, prescription billing information, medical history, notes, x-rays, phone messages, and several other relevant pieces of information.

Institutions that must comply with HIPAA are called covered entities. Covered entities include any and all organizations or individuals who retain or collect health related information. This includes larger institutions such as hospitals, medical centers and insurance. There are also small covered entities such as dentists, doctors, counselors, billing centers and many others. Technically, every employer in the United States with completed health insurance applications or injury reports on file is considered a small covered entity under HIPAA.

Destroying ALL discarded patient information is a VERY important requirement of HIPAA. This also includes information on computers. Deleting information does not erase it. It must be destroyed.

No office is too small to benefit from using a shredding firm. A SECURE SHREDDING FIRM is very inexpensive insurance.