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E-mail Encryption System

Understanding Health Information Privacy

The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and other important purposes. 

The Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information. 

Therapeutic Associates respects the privacy of our customers, and we have invested in an email encryption system called Proofpoint in order to protect the rights of our patients and customers. This encryption system will allow us to share sensitive information, including healthcare-related data, through electronic mail.

If you have received an email from Therapeutic Associates that is encrypted, you must complete the registration process ONCE in order to receive the information electronically. Any future e-mail received by the same address will be password protected, and you will only be required to input your password to view the content. This process only takes a minute and will protect your personal information.

Click here for an overview of what to expect in your first encrypted message.
  

Healthcare Consumers:

Your Health Information Is Protected By Federal Law

Most of us believe that our medical and other health information is private and should be protected, and we want to know who has this information. The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information. The Privacy Rule applies to all forms of individuals’ protected health information, whether electronic, written, or oral. The Security Rule, a Federal law that protects health information in electronic form, requires entities covered by HIPAA to ensure that electronic protected health information is secure.

Healthcare Providers:

Therapeutic Associates uses an electronic medical records system, and we are now able to communicate patient documentation with our referring physicians via our encrypted e-mail system. If you are interested in establishing this communication tool with our clinics, please contact your TAI clinic. If your clinic uses an EMR system, this would allow you to save physical therapy documentation directly into your system for record keeping. 

For those payers requiring physician signatures on care plans, we still need to receive a signed copy of our care plan via fax or snail mail.