From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 14:40:33 GMT-3
At 9:26 AM -0800 3/3/04, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
>I have been told by vendors that SSNs can be faxed and still be
>secure enough for HIPAA.
The last time I looked at the HIPAA FAQ's, fax was generally accepted
as adequately secure for private medical information. Certainly,
there are some general practices you'd want to follow, such as a
cover sheet with confidentiality information. If the material being
sent is especially sensitive, you may want to call an actual person
at the destination and have them tell you when they are physically at
the fax.
You bring up an interesting point, as HIPAA and other medical privacy
(and availability) standards and regulations are important to my
work. It's pretty far outside the CCIE area, but would there be
interest if I sponsored a forum or mailing list for it?
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