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About Angela Burnette

Angela Burnette focuses her practice on many aspects of health law. She handles health care litigation involving issues such as hospital-physician disputes, hospital licensure and investigation, contract, medical malpractice and peer review, successfully resolving matters at the trial and the appellate level.

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Transmitting PHI by Email

May 27, 2014 By Angela Burnette

Email has become an important mode of communication for business operations, with approximately 100 billion business emails sent in 2013 alone. Included in these messages are patients’ personal and health information, such as test results, diagnoses, and social security numbers. The Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 […]

Filed Under: Health Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Health Information Security, HIPAA, HITECH

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