On 19/02/2012 11:59 AM, Art Todesco wrote:
The good news is that most will accept a Fax because Faxes are
considered secure as they are point to point.

The only reason faxes are more secure than e-mail is that fax isn't used
enough to make it a tempting target. Faxes are just binary code
transmitted over phone lines. Phone lines can be hacked, so....

Bottom line: if it's transmitted over any kind of network, in any
format, it can be hacked. If the information is valuable enough, someone
will hack it.

Anyhow, e-mails can be encrypted using public-key methods. The doc only
has to give his patients the public key half of his encryption key. It
can't be used to decrypt the mail.

Wolf K.