Google will now give a Business Associate contract for Gmail, Drive, and Calendar for business. Does this mean health care folks can use those products now?
A major upside of the 2013 HIPAA Omnibus Rule was the clarification that clients can request to receive unencrypted emails if first informed of the risks.
Clinicians need to make sure our email communications are protected. But “protected” doesn’t always mean what you think it means.
Gmail uses encryption, but not in the ways you may think. Find out how the giant of consumer email helps — and doesn’t help — us as clinicians.
For professional therapists, confidentiality is a big issue. Did you ever think you’d know as much as you do about shredders, locking file cabinets and white noise generators? With electronic communication with clients quickly becoming a norm for our profession, it’s time to add encryption to the list of things we know how to use. […]