Chapter 1: Email in Health Care Flashcards
1
Q
Email is short for?
A
Electronic mail.
2
Q
Does HIPAA rules allow health care provides to communicate with their patients though email?
A
Yes,
3
Q
What does the email have to have in order to be sent?
A
A reasonable safeguard.
4
Q
What is a Safeguard?
A
An email application that encrypts messages.
5
Q
What is an Encryption?
A
Sends a message in secret writing that will be translated when the authorized person (the patient) gets it.
6
Q
Does someone that is not the patient can get the translated email.
A
No.
7
Q
Wha does appointment reminders, reports of normal lab results, medication information, general questions, links to helpful websites and follow-up inquire?
A
A suitable for email.
8
Q
What should not be sent through email?
A
Time-sensitive subjects.
