{"id":1799,"date":"2021-10-08T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:48:03","slug":"tips-for-emailing-patient-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/2021\/10\/08\/tips-for-emailing-patient-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Emailing Patient Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2021\/10\/October-Privacy-Monthly-Matters-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"wp-image-1822 size-medium alignright\" \/><br \/>\nOffice of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy has some<br \/>\ntips for you on sending patient information by email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responsibilities of individuals authorized to<br \/>\nemail protected health information (PHI):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not email PHI to your personal email address.<\/li>\n<li>Do not email PHI to another UConn Health user\u2019s personal email address.<\/li>\n<li>When emailing PHI to another UConn Health user, use the recipient\u2019s UConn Health email address.<\/li>\n<li>Do not include PHI in the subject line of an email.<\/li>\n<li>Emails containing PHI must include <strong>[Secure]<\/strong> in the subject line or the body of the email.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Double-check all recipient e-mail addresses before hitting the send button, and watch out for the auto-complete function in Outlook.<\/li>\n<li>Do not share your password with anyone, and lock your computer when not in use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Review our internal policies for more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/policies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/07\/policy_2011_04.pdf\">2011-04 Electronic Communication of Confidential Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/policies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/07\/policy_2002_43.pdf\">2002-43 Confidentiality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/policies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/07\/policy_2011_03.pdf\">2011-03 Systems Access Control<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/contact-us\/\">contact<\/a> the Office of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and the Office of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy has some tips for you on sending patient information by email. Responsibilities of individuals authorized to email protected health information (PHI): Do not email PHI to your personal email address. Do not email PHI to another UConn Health user\u2019s personal email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 11:48:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/healthcare-compliance-privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}