White Papers for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Healthcare Industry Best Practices for Securing E-mail

Tumbleweed Communications

E-mail has become an essential business tool in the healthcare industry, as a communications mechanism
universally available to all healthcare participants. However, healthcare organizations are challenged with
maintaining the ubiquity and usefulness of e-mail in the face of HIPAA privacy and security regulations
requiring varying levels of control, tracking, and encryption of protected health information (PHI)
disclosures. This paper lays out a set of best practices to help healthcare organizations create and manage
a secure e-mail infrastructure that continues to support open communications with all healthcare
participants, while ensuring the security of PHI and compliance with HIPAA regulations.

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