Medical Billing Forum
HIPAA => HIPAA => : rachel April 06, 2009, 05:10:07 PM
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Hi,
I am new to your website and well as the business and had a question in regards to encrypted files. I have a dr who wants to scan and email me his patient info, would this fall under needing to be encrypted as well? I generally get my info faxed but he doesn't have one so I am having him mail his initial sign ups to start with because I am unsure how to handle! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
Love your sight, will be ordering some of your materials shortly!
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You have to purchase an encryption program or you can use a service such as SafetySend.
How the key works is you get a key and the provider gets a key (you can't share it), the email is encrypted using whatever encryption software you have and the provider reads the email by de-crypting it using his key.
It's not as complex as it sounds, but I like Safetysend beter and they have different levels of service to choose from.
www.safetysend.com
Linda Walker
PMRNC
www.billerswebsite.com
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Thank you very much for the info...