MDs must use email encryption, by (HIPAA) law

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Mon Apr 14 04:31:02 PDT 2003


http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-hipaa14apr14,1,4384076.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dhealth

"A tougher medical privacy law"

Doctors no longer can send e-mails to patients. (Not true. E-mails
between
doctor and patient are acceptable as long as the messages are encrypted
and
sent on a secure computer network.)





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