A Medical Assistant receives instructions to send a detailed patient care report to a referring physician. Which of the following methods should the assistant use to transmit the report securely?
Save the report on a flash drive and mail it to the physician's office.
Send the report via an encrypted email to the authorized recipient.
Send the report via standard email to the physician's email address provided.
Fax the report using the office's public fax machine.
The correct method for transmitting sensitive patient information is through encrypted email. Encryption transforms the data into a code, which helps to prevent unauthorized access during electronic transmission. Using a standard email does not provide the necessary security measures required by HIPAA. Fax transmission may still be used in some circumstances, but it is less secure than encrypted email, and the use of flash drives for the transmission of patient records is not secure without encryption and should be avoided to prevent unauthorized access.
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