tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 4
Reader Question: Ensure Encryption to Avoid HIPAA Breach
Question: If our general surgery practice uses unencrypted email to send a report with a patient’s protected health information (PHI) to another physician’s office, is that a reportable breach? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: Unfortunately, there’s no clear-cut decisive answer to this, says Jim Sheldon-Dean, founder and director of compliance for Lewis Creek Systems LLC in Charlotte, VT. “I see plenty of reports of breaches that are taking place that involve this kind of communication.” Many lawyers will say that the proper way to interpret a situation where you’ve sent an unencrypted email containing PHI...
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