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Email is also universal. The difference is that fax has a legal exception carved out for it that permits HIPAA-compliant systems to consider fax as secure while
by solatic 7y ago
Email is also universal. The difference is that fax has a legal exception carved out for it that permits HIPAA-compliant systems to consider fax as secure while email is considered insecure and thus non-compliant.
Of course fax is horrendously insecure. But the legal exception stands, and when your security posture is dictated by regulatory compliance and not by results, then it's the best solution.
- fsflover 7y agoThat is technically correct, but it does not answer the actual question. Why is there such exception? Why is nothing changing?
- bluedino 7y agoEmail isn't universal when it comes to HIPPA. There's a hundred different companies offering ways to exchange encrypted emails to the medical market, and they're all pretty bad.
- ciceryadam 7y agoThis legal extension is valid also in finance, I was doing production support of a fax digitising service in a financial institution around 8 years ago. AFAIK it's still there, creating a fake alert about one of the 8 lines down every week.
- wideasleep1 7y agoI think this is true. The only time I fax, is annually, to renew my insurance. The 'binding letter' requires a physical signature, and they reject a 'digital signature'. Yet, a fax is digitial. All righty then.