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HIPAA Compliance is Needed for Emailed Appointment Reminders
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Twice in the past few weeks I have received appointment reminders or scheduling information from doctors via email — via insecure, non-HIPAA-compliant email.
An email message contains identifying information: my email address and my name. The appointment email messages also contain information about “the past, present, or future provisioning of health care to an individual” … me! Taken together, this means that these email messages are ePHI (more details – what is ePHI?) and needed to be secured in a HIPAA compliant manner.
That they were not compliant was obvious to me:
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