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<p data-start="762" data-end="910">You start with a simple idea. But as your business grows, your tools need to grow with you. That’s why we’ve rebuilt MakeForms from the ground up.</p><p data-start="912" data-end="1129">Today we’re excited to announce <strong data-start="944" data-end="961">MakeForms 2.0</strong>, our biggest update yet. It’s faster, more secure, and designed to help you generate high-quality leads at scale. This is part one of a four-part series on what’s new.</p><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe style="width: 100%;aspect-ratio: 16/9;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ase7UbD0LuI?si=YXSeNqLRsMzQ_P6a" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><h2>A Fresh Look and Lightning Performance</h2><p data-start="1179" data-end="1369">The first thing you’ll notice is the redesigned dashboard. It’s clean, intuitive, and nearly two to three times faster than before. Building, editing, and managing forms now feels instant.</p><p data-start="1371" data-end="1550">This isn’t just a visual update. The rebuild improves every part of your workflow. The new branding, which you may have seen on our site, reflects this focus on clarity and speed.</p><h2>Seamlessly Switch Between Global Data Regions</h2><p><img src="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/global_region_switch_8e6b3e72e9.png" alt="global-region-switch.png" srcset="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/thumbnail_global_region_switch_8e6b3e72e9.png 245w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/small_global_region_switch_8e6b3e72e9.png 500w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/medium_global_region_switch_8e6b3e72e9.png 750w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/large_global_region_switch_8e6b3e72e9.png 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="1280" height="720"></p><p data-start="1371" data-end="1550">Our power users have been asking for this one, and we're excited to deliver. In MakeForms 1.0, switching between workspaces in different regions (like the US and EU) was a bit clunky because they were hosted on separate subdomains. With MakeForms 2.0, all of your regions and workspaces are now consolidated under a single domain: app.makeforms.io. This means switching between your EU and US workspaces is now instantaneous. You’ll see the data region of your current workspace right in the top corner, and all your most-used workspaces will be right at the top for quick access.</p><h2>We’re Going Global with More Data Residency Options</h2><p><img src="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/going_global_aea2e75f05.png" alt="going-global.png" srcset="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/thumbnail_going_global_aea2e75f05.png 245w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/small_going_global_aea2e75f05.png 500w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/medium_going_global_aea2e75f05.png 750w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/large_going_global_aea2e75f05.png 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="1280" height="720"></p><p><a href="/data-residency">Data residency</a> is a top priority for us, and we know it's a critical compliance need for many of you. We’ve always offered regions for US (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://makeforms.io/hipaa-forms">HIPAA compliant</a>) and EU (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://makeforms.io/gdpr-form-builder">GDPR compliant</a>) users, but with MakeForms 2.0, we’re expanding our global footprint to give you more choice and control.&nbsp;<br><br>We've added four new regions for our MRR (monthly recurring revenue) customers:&nbsp;</p><ol><li>Canada for PIPEDA compliance</li><li>India for our users in the region</li><li>Singapore (with PDPA compliance coming soon)</li><li>Australia for our users who need their data to stay within Australia</li></ol><p>And for our Enterprise customers, we've gone even further, giving you six more exclusive regions to choose from, including the UAE, South Africa, Japan, the UK, Brazil, and Israel. This expansion means that whether you're a small business or a global agency, you can now host your forms and data in the location that makes the most sense for your business and your customers.</p><h2>The All-New Lead Form: Built for Conversion</h2><p><img src="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/lead_form_b45ed26dc3.png" alt="lead-form.png" srcset="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/thumbnail_lead_form_b45ed26dc3.png 245w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/small_lead_form_b45ed26dc3.png 500w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/medium_lead_form_b45ed26dc3.png 750w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/large_lead_form_b45ed26dc3.png 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="1280" height="720"></p><p>If you're using forms to <a href="/lead-generation-software">generate leads</a>, you’re going to love our new lead form option. This brand-new template is specifically designed for high-conversion campaigns. The new lead form has a smart, step-by-step layout.&nbsp;<br><br>You can ask initial qualifying questions on the first page, like "How many bedrooms are you looking for?" or "What's your budget?", and then save the personal details (name, email, and phone number) for the final page.&nbsp;<br><br>This streamlined approach helps you gather information more effectively and improve your conversion rates. You also have complete control over the design, from colors and fonts to adding a personalized image in the footer to build trust.</p><h2>TCPA Compliance and Advanced Lead Verification</h2><p><img src="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/tcpa_compliance_c6895801a8.png" alt="tcpa-compliance.png" srcset="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/thumbnail_tcpa_compliance_c6895801a8.png 245w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/small_tcpa_compliance_c6895801a8.png 500w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/medium_tcpa_compliance_c6895801a8.png 750w,https://website-assets.makeforms.io/large_tcpa_compliance_c6895801a8.png 1000w," sizes="100vw" width="1280" height="720"></p><p>For those working in the US, we've also added some powerful new features to help you stay <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://makeforms.io/blog/tcpa-compliance-for-sms-marketing-in-us">TCPA compliant</a>. You can now enable lead certification with one-click integrations for TrustedForm and Jornaya.&nbsp;<br><br>We’ve also introduced a dedicated TCPA consent field where you can add your specific legal language and even get one-to-one consent for each company you’re distributing leads to. And we haven't forgotten about lead verification.&nbsp;<br><br>We’ve made some big updates to our phone number verification process, adding options for <a href="/otp-verification-forms">SMS-only verification </a>and inline verification, where a "Verify" button appears right on the form. This ensures you're collecting valid, high-quality data from genuine users.</p><p>This Is Just the Beginning This is only a sneak peek at everything new in MakeForms 2.0. We've worked tirelessly to deliver a product that is not only faster and more powerful but also more intuitive and secure.&nbsp;<br><br>We can't wait for you to experience the difference. Over the next four weeks, we'll be sharing more deep dives into the new features and improvements. Stay tuned for our next video and blog post, and in the meantime, log in and explore the all-new <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://app.makeforms.io/sign-up">MakeForms 2.0</a> for yourself.</p>

MakeForms 2.0 is a complete rebuild prioritising speed, security, and lead conversion. The interface is two to three times faster, and a single domain enables seamless region switching. New data residency choices span Canada, India, Singapore, Australia, and six enterprise-only regions, ensuring global compliance.

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The New MakeForms 2.0 ( part 1 ) : Speed, Compliance, and Conversions

<p><i>Date: August 26, 2024</i></p><p>MakeForms, a leading form-building SaaS tool focused on privacy and security, is pleased to announce the launch of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://otp.io"><strong>OTP.io</strong></a>. This new product is designed to help businesses verify users through email, SMS, and WhatsApp, no matter where they are located, ensuring that only genuine, verified leads are captured.</p><p>In today’s competitive landscape, the quality of leads is crucial to business success. As companies grow and scale, having a simple and reliable verification tool becomes increasingly important. otp.io addresses this need by providing an efficient, multi-channel solution that ensures your user base is legitimate and engaged.</p><p><strong>Key Features of otp.io:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Global Reach:</strong> Verify users across email, SMS, and WhatsApp, worldwide.</li><li><strong>Multi-Channel Support:</strong> Meet your users where they are, with their preferred communication method.</li><li><strong>Accurate Verification:</strong> Ensure that the leads you capture are genuine and verified.</li><li><strong>Easy Integration: </strong>Seamlessly fits into your existing systems, making setup quick and simple.</li><li><strong>Reliable Delivery:</strong> Verification messages are delivered promptly and accurately.</li></ul><p><strong>Founder’s Note:</strong></p><p>“In today’s fast-paced business environment, the importance of verified leads cannot be overstated. As we developed the infrastructure at MakeForms, we encountered the complexities of implementing OTP verification. It became clear that ensuring the quality of leads through proper verification was not always easy. That’s why we created otp.io – to simplify the process and help businesses capture only genuine, verified leads. We believe otp.io will become an essential tool for businesses looking to optimize their lead generation and maintain high-quality user engagement.” – <i>Pratik Ghela</i>, Founder of MakeForms.</p><p><strong>About MakeForms:</strong></p><p>MakeForms is a trusted provider of form-building tools, known for its commitment to helping businesses collect and manage data securely. With a focus on innovation and user-friendly design, MakeForms continues to enhance how businesses handle form submissions and lead generation.</p><p><strong>Contact Information:</strong></p><p>For media inquiries, please contact:</p><p>Shravashti Dolas</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:shravasti@make.io">shravasti@make.io</a></p><p>Website: https://otp.io</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

MakeForms, a leading form-building SaaS tool focused on privacy and security, is pleased to announce the launch of OTP.io.

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Press Release : MakeForms launches OTP.io, Offering a Streamlined Solution for Global User Verification

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<p>Whether you're a seasoned healthcare provider or just starting your journey in the field, navigating the complexities of HIPAA regulations can be daunting. Which is why we have created an all-encompassing HIPAA forms glossary that will serve as your go-to resource for decoding the intricate language surrounding HIPAA compliance, specifically in forms.</p><p>Before we get to the HIPAA forms glossary, it is important that we understand exactly what HIPAA is and why understanding HIPAA terminology is important.</p><h2>What is HIPAA and Why Understanding HIPAA Terminology is Important?</h2><p>HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law in the United States established to safeguard patients' medical information. &nbsp;The law has been set up to ensure the security and privacy of protected health information (PHI) as well as to set the standards for its disclosure, use, and protection.</p><p>When it comes to handling sensitive patient information, you absolutely cannot take any chances. It is imperative for every healthcare professional or facility dealing with patient health information to understand all HIPAA terms without any confusion. If you don't understand these, you could easily violate HIPAA without even realizing it which can lead to costly fines, lawsuits, and a serious breach of trust with your patients.</p><p>Understanding HIPAA terminology allows healthcare professionals to implement necessary safeguards and navigate legal requirements. By knowing key terms, your medical staff can uphold HIPAA standards, mitigate risks of breaches, and build trust with patients.</p><p>Additionally, familiarity with HIPAA terms cultivates a culture of respect and accountability for patient confidentiality within healthcare organizations as well. Ultimately, this promotes better care delivery!</p><p>Now let us get to the HIPAA glossary, in alphabetic order:</p><h2>HIPAA Glossary Terms You Need To Know - Explained In Detail</h2><h3>1. Access Control</h3><p>This refers to the mechanisms and measures employed to allow only authorized users, programs or processes access to information systems that contain protected health information within a healthcare facility. You can think of it as a digital lock and key intended to keep patient data safe.</p><h3>2. Administrative Safeguards</h3><p>The policies and procedures put in place to detect, contain, correct, and prevent security violations to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI) are known as Administrative Safeguards. It is like the rulebook that guides how healthcare professionals handle sensitive patient information.</p><h3>3. Audit Trail</h3><p>A digital record that logs and retains information about activities and events involving ePHI. It is an electronic footprint of who accessed, used, or made changes to what patient information and when.</p><h3>4. Authorization</h3><p>It is the permission granted by the patient for use or disclosure of their PHI. Authorization is to be taken by hospitals and other healthcare facilities when they plan on using or sharing patient health information in specific ways. This cannot be done by healthcare facilities until they have the green light from their patients.</p><h3>5. Breach</h3><p>A breach occurs when there's unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of PHI that compromises the privacy or security of that information.</p><h3>6. Breach Notification Rule</h3><p>Requirements and regulations that mandate covered entities to notify affected individuals, HHS and potentially the media if there's been a breach of PHI.</p><h3>7. Business Associate</h3><p>An outside entity that creates, receives, maintains or transmits PHI to perform functions, services, or activities on behalf of (or for) a covered entity. This is a person or organization that helps healthcare providers, like a hospital or doctor's office, carry out healthcare activities.</p><h3>8. Confidentiality</h3><p>Confidentiality is the principle that patient information should be kept secure and private. It is an assurance provided by the individual or organization collecting the form that the patient's health information will only be accessible to authorized persons or entities.</p><h3>9. Consent</h3><p>It is a written approval taken from patients for the use and disclosure of their protected health information for specific purposes. The purpose can involve payment, treatment, and healthcare operations</p><h3>10. Covered Entity</h3><p>Covered Entities or CE refers to health plans (insurance companies, HMOs), healthcare providers (doctors, hospitals, clinics), and healthcare clearinghouses that electronically transmit protected health information. All CEs need to comply with HIPAA security rules to protect patient data.</p><h3>11. Covered Functions</h3><p>Those functions or tasks of a CE that make the entity subject to HIPAA's Privacy and Security Rules regarding PHI. Simply put, these are different tasks or jobs within a healthcare organization that involve patient information and come under the HIPAA rule.</p><h3>12. Data Encryption</h3><p>Data encryption is essentially the process of converting comprehensible information into an unreadable format. This is done using an algorithm designed to prevent unauthorized access to protected health information.</p><h3>13. Designated Record Set</h3><p>This is a group of records kept and maintained containing PHI by or for a covered entity. It is like a folder that contains all the critical documents concerning a patient's healthcare.</p><h3>14. De-identification</h3><p>The procedure of removing or altering personal identifiers from protected information for the prevention of individual patient identification.</p><h3>15. Disclosure</h3><p>Disclosure, in terms of HIPAA, is when PHI is shared, released, transferred, or provided access to someone outside of the organization/entity.</p><h3>16. Health Oversight Agency</h3><p>This is a government agency authorized and responsible for overseeing and enforcing healthcare systems, laws, and regulations. It is a watchdog assigned by the US government to ensure everyone follows the rules in the healthcare world.</p><h3>17. Indirect Treatment Relationship</h3><p>This is when a healthcare provider extends treatment to a patient as per the directions or orders of another healthcare provider.</p><h3>18. Minimum Necessary Rule</h3><p>This is a rule dictating that only the minimum necessary PHI needed to achieve a certain purpose shall be used or disclosed. At the code level, moreover, developers must implement measures that limit as well as access privileges.</p><h3>19. Personal Representative</h3><p>This is a person legally authorized to make healthcare decisions on behalf of another individual. The decisions are regarding matters involving that individual's protected health information.</p><h3>20. Physical Safeguards</h3><p>The physical measures, guidelines, policies, and procedures established and implemented to protect a covered entity's electronic information systems from unauthorized intrusion and environmental hazards.</p><h3>21. Privacy Rule</h3><p>A set of federal standards designed and followed to protect patients’ medical records and other personal health information. The Privacy Rule establishes requirements for use and disclosure of the PHI by covered entities.</p><h3>22. Protected Health Information (PHI) or ePHI</h3><p>PHI is any information about a patient's health condition, status, prescribed treatment, or payment for healthcare that can be linked to them. ePHI is PHI that is transmitted electronically that contains all the details of a patient's medical history.</p><h3>23. Risk Assessment</h3><p>It is the process and protocol of identifying, evaluating and estimating potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of ePHI. Risk assessment helps you map out all the possible risks to patient information and figure out how to avoid them.</p><h3>24. Security Rule</h3><p>A set of HIPAA requirements and standards regarding administrative, technical, as well as physical safeguards for maintaining and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of ePHI.</p><h3>25. Technical Safeguards</h3><p>These are measures, policies, and regulations employed to protect PHI during electronic transmission. For example encryption and access controls. These digital barriers help to keep patient information safe from hackers.</p><h3>26. Unsecured PHI</h3><p>The PHI that has not been rendered unreadable, indecipherable, undecodable, and unusable through approved technologies or methodologies prescribed by HHS.</p><h3>27. Workforce</h3><p>This encompasses individuals such as employees, trainees, volunteers, and other personnel whose actions are directly overseen and regulated by a covered entity.</p><h2>Now You Can Navigate HIPAA Regulations with Confidence</h2><p>We know how important it is to master HIPAA terms for healthcare professionals to uphold patient privacy and comply with legal standards. We created this glossary to equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate HIPAA regulation, specific to forms more confidently. We hope this helps!</p><h2>Build HIPAA compliant Forms With MakeForms</h2><p>Looking for a HIPAA compliant online form builder? MakeForms is a form builder designed for healthcare organizations that helps you comply with the HIPAA rule.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/Make_Forms_drag_and_drop_interface_2048x1105_e2a2b7f7bd.webp" alt="MakeForms-drag-and-drop-interface-2048x1105.webp" srcset="https://website-assets.makeforms.io/thumbnail_Make_Forms_drag_and_drop_interface_2048x1105_e2a2b7f7bd.webp 245w, https://website-assets.makeforms.io/small_Make_Forms_drag_and_drop_interface_2048x1105_e2a2b7f7bd.webp 500w, https://website-assets.makeforms.io/medium_Make_Forms_drag_and_drop_interface_2048x1105_e2a2b7f7bd.webp 750w, https://website-assets.makeforms.io/large_Make_Forms_drag_and_drop_interface_2048x1105_e2a2b7f7bd.webp 1000w" sizes="100vw" width="1000"></figure><p>Our solution helps you create beautiful and well-organized forms for collecting patient information while maintaining patient privacy.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://frms.link/bo8ncl5">Book a free demo</a> today to see how seamlessly MakeForms works</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Whether you’re a seasoned healthcare provider or just starting your journey in the field, navigating the complexities of HIPAA regulations can be daunting.

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