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Waiver of responsibility for emailed PHI
From: "Mayne, Jim" <j.mayne () TCU EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:24:52 -0600
A question for some of you that have experience with HIPAA and the HITECH rules. If a person, or in the case of a child, a legal guardian signs a waiver allowing PHI to be communicated with them through email and later that email is misrouted, intercepted or otherwise read by someone else, is that considered a breach? Is the school responsible for reporting that as a breach? Thanks, Jim Jim Mayne Information Security Services
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