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Is Emailing Blank Forms OK Under HIPAA?

Published on Fri Sep 12, 2014

If you’re wondering whether it’s OK under HIPAA to send blank forms to a patient or their caregiver to fill out, listen to one expert. Question: "Should we just ask the patients whether it’s OK to send them these forms via email and document it somewhere on our files that we’ve gotten a verbal OK to email them?" asks one provider. [...]
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