ALSBTALK:

If it is digital, then a promise of confidentiality, the vast majority of the time, is an illusory promise.

If you want to be digital and you want to be confidential, then move those files behind a firewall set up by and managed by a currently HIPPA liable IT administrator (e.g., med school).

Michael

Professor Michael J. O'Hara, J.D., Ph.D.
Finance, Banking, & Law Department
College of Business Administration
Mammel Hall 228 
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Omaha  NE  68182-0048
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