We are a home health agency that provides PT, OT and ST. We communicate regularly with our therapists via e-mail. Patient's summary of progress etc are exchanged and then we copy and paste to a document that we send to the physician. Currently for patient confidentiality we have the therapist de-indentify information in e-mail by removing patient name and using only initials(no address other identiying info is on this document.) During our risk analysis we determined that this is a potential risk in patient privacy because a therapist could inadvertently include the full patient name. With the cost of an additional exchange server(as our e-mail is handled externally at this point) is this "reasonable" to continue as we are without encyption? Any inexpensive alternatives??
If not, does any one have any comments about Microsoft Exchange Server, where each of our staff would have there own e-mail address and we would encrypt by default. We are struggling with "reasonable" because of the cost of the product and the number of licenses we would need to acquire Thanks for your opinion and helpful comments! Craig Moen, MPT Director of Rehabilitation THERAPY 2000 214-467-9787 office 214-741-3655 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidential Information If you have any problems receiving this transmission, please call our toll free number (877) 626-7003 or call collect 214-467-9787. Unless otherwise indicated or obvious by the nature of this transmittal, the information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential, intended for the use of the intended recipient (or the employee or agent responsible to deliver to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by placing a call to the toll free number listed above. THERAPY 2000 1881 Sylvan Avenue Suite 210 Dallas, Tx 75208 --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-privacy as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org
