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Co-Mail has been created to fully comply with privacy and security requirements, and accordingly is compliant with HIPAA. As a secure collaboration email, Co-Mail completely protects all data sent between Co-Mail users via encryption (OpenPGP and SSL). In addition, Co-Mail offers various options according to requirements regarding private health information (PHI).
Compliance of Co-Mail with HIPAA
For compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, passed by Congress in 1996) regulated entities must securely store, maintain and transmit private health information (PHI) in a reasonable way to provide patients and others data confidentiality. The regulation doesn't impose encryption use, but requires PHI to be adequately protected, implementing "appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of Private Health Information".
Co-Mail's 2048-key asymmetric encryption combined with other mechanisms is a tailored solution that secures any electronic private data, including health information. The requirements for a health care information system are related to whether medical record privacy is adequately protected: unauthorized persons can't access it, it can't be misused, and those using it can be precisely identified.
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