I thought the hotmail reference was a total joke. protecting information, not having ID put together with personal medical information is only part of the equation. It is a violation to send pki over the internet CLEAR TEXT, which I believe anything sent to or from a hotmail account would fall into that category, so no matter what you did to secure the identity of the recipient, its still a violation, right?
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Only someone that has done a lot of digging into HIPPA would know but that > is what I thought as well. > > It is getting the correct person the password to the vault that concerns > me. Anyone can send an email from any account and then get the > information. Sending the connection information by email would be fine (I > think) if it is was an anonymous account. It would concern me if someone > was to get the password for the vault that way. > > Jon > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:28 PM, John Aldrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu May 13 2010, you wrote: >> > No, I was just joking about the Hotmail bit. ;-) >> > >> > On 5/13/2010 5:49 PM, Jon Harris wrote: >> > > Do you really think that sending this kind of information thru a >> > > Hotmail/Yahoo/gmail is any better? Maybe to send a link to one of the >> > > secure data transmission methods it would be an idea and maybe a good >> > > idea. No owner information without a lot of digging to find the owner >> > > of the hotmail/yahoo/gmail account. >> > > I would second that if you do this then you have the receiver call >> > > into the office and get the password to the secure vaulted information >> > > or better yet make them come in and get it. >> > > Jon >> > > >> I really think that the combination of an "anonymous" Hotmail or Gmail or >> yahoo account *along with* the vault is a good solution. That way there's >> nothing obvious to tie it back to the original medical facility, in case >> there's someone "shoulder surfing" etc. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> John Aldrich >> Blueridge Industries >> IT Manager >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
