Dear Rob, Two things:
1. It is the sender of unencrypted emails about patients that is taking the risk legally of claims from patients that their confidentiality was breached because somebody at an ISP read the message about them. As the recipient of an unencrypted email, you can't be held responsible for the sender's failure to encrypt it. This means that as the recipient of an unencrypted email about a patient, you don't have to worry about any legal risk to you; 2. Was Mr. Oppy talking about Argus when he said that: "...the hospital also put considerable effort into setting up a PKI encryption service for GP's who wanted to transmit outpatient referrals via encrypted email. This service was promoted to GP's by the Northern Division of General Practice and the North East Valley Division of General Practice. The outcome was that three GP's took up the encryption offer, a minute percentage."? If he was not talking about Argus, I would tell him now that Argus is the way to go. If was talking about Argus, I suggest that you and the Northern Division and North East Valley Divisions of General Practice have a little chat to Dr. Chris Bollen, Medical Director of the Adelaide North East Davison of General Practice, which is currently helping its members and specialists to start using Argus, to discuss how to promote Argus to GPs and specialists so that they do implement it. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (08) 8397 9007 mobile: 0412952043 Fax: (08) 8396 5067 Website:http://www.anedgp.com.au Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens South Australia 5086 Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
