> I have asked to be removed from their e-mail list suggesting that I will > only receive encrypted e-mail regarding my patients. It concerns me that > such a large public institution is going down the track of using plain > e-mail for this communication with GPs.
If all other approaches are soooo complicated, you would at the very least think they could zip a document with a password, and deliver that password via a separate mechanism (fax out "this month the password is 'austin-is-secure'"), before poking that document out thru the open email. > 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. Any indication how long they offered this for? It sounds like an almost ideal solution, apart from the need for the recipients to learn or install the appropriate bits for decrypting. Maybe they should have made it a requirement, instead of an option. -- Les Ferguson Business Analyst Medtech Software Ltd Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
