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Use These Precautions When E-Mailing Patient Info

Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014

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Reader Question:
Use These Precautions When E-Mailing Patient Info
Watch your step or you’ll violate HIPAA. Reader Question: I sometimes e-mail pa-tient records [...]

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