Should you Text (SMS) Physician’s patient information?
Texting to mobile devices has become a concern for many health care leaders. Loss or stolen mobile devices containing unsecured “personal health information (PHI)” has caused numerous reported breaches and enforcement actions in the past few years. Use of mobile devices for texting PHI poses a number of risks. Are you taking the chance of damaging your reputation or the loss of patient trust because of adequate safeguards?
This could happen to you: In 2012, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) reached a $1.5 million agreement with HHS and agreed to a 3-‐year corrective action plan after an employee’s laptop containing unencrypted PHI was stolen. What if your employee lost their cell phone with text messages containing PHI?
Another possible risk is PHI could be intercepted by unauthorized persons. Telecommunications vendors or wireless carriers store texts containing PHI so you will need to execute a business associate agreement with that vendor.
So there is a solution to texting PHI to Physician mobile device.
Secure Messaging is the new technology for sending PHI to Physicians. The data is encrypted and the information is not stored on the device. You can create a circle like in Google and share messages with the members in your circle.
You need to evaluate the texting risks as part of the organization’s risk analysis. HIPAA risk analysis is the foundation for safeguarding electronic PHI. The risk strategy is to reduce leaks by implementing a risk management strategy. Failure to do a risk analysis is frequently cited as an alleged violation in OCR settlements and small organization are not exempt from the requirements.
So you have to make the decision if your organization will take the risk texting PHI to Physicians.
Just remember you do have an alternative by using Secure Messaging.
I don’t think the title of your article matches the content lol. Just kidding, mainly because I had some doubts after reading the article.
Thanks for sharing. I read many of your blog posts, cool, your blog is very good. https://accounts.binance.com/register-person?ref=P9L9FQKY
Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?
Can you be more specific about the content of your article? After reading it, I still have some doubts. Hope you can help me.
Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you.
Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you. https://accounts.binance.info/register-person?ref=IHJUI7TF
Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me? https://accounts.binance.info/register-person?ref=IXBIAFVY
Can you be more specific about the content of your article? After reading it, I still have some doubts. Hope you can help me. https://accounts.binance.com/ES_la/register?ref=VDVEQ78S
Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you. https://accounts.binance.com/ph/register-person?ref=IU36GZC4
Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?
Thanks for sharing. I read many of your blog posts, cool, your blog is very good.
Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?
I don’t think the title of your article matches the content lol. Just kidding, mainly because I had some doubts after reading the article.
Your article helped me a lot, is there any more related content? Thanks!