Are medical records that are sent as email attachments over the internet secure?

01.December, 2008


The email would have to be encrypted if sent normally, but would be okay if the files came over a VPN tunnel connection

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2 Comments for “Are medical records that are sent as email attachments over the internet secure?”

  1. Simon E says:
    01.December, 2008 at 6:02 am

    Simple answer: NO

    Anyone with sufficient access could have snooped on the packets along the way as normally email is transported unencrypted.

    If you want to secure the attachments look into email encyption and PGP.

    This is a good guide

    http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97jorn/pgp/
    References :

  2. bobus1964 says:
    01.December, 2008 at 6:31 am

    The email would have to be encrypted if sent normally, but would be okay if the files came over a VPN tunnel connection
    References :

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