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That sounds a bit too juicy to be true. Any citations?

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  I've literally been in the room when legal and compliance offices gave the advice on both the construction of the relevant regulations and industry practices on which a payer relied on in deciding to use a process that created paper documents then faxed them for certain purposes, but, no, there's nothing published I can link to as to that being the reason industry players make that decision. I can, however, point you to the relevant section of HIPAA regulations on which it rests, the definition of “electronic media” at 45 CFR § 160.103, specifically this bit: “Certain transmissions, including of paper, via facsimile, and of voice, via telephone, are not considered to be transmissions via electronic media if the information being exchanged did not exist in electronic form immediately before the transmission.”
  • cm2187 8y ago
    And in a way it is justified, you need a warrant to wiretap a phone line but no such constraint on eavesdropping on TCP/IP communication.
  • dx034 8y ago
    > if the information being exchanged did not exist in electronic form immediately before the transmission So you need to print them out before faxing? PDF->Fax wouldn't work with that definition.