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Hippa and Cell Phones

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by dguilloryjr

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I am havign people ask me to have there smartphones sync (windows phones & iphones) with the xchange server.

How if any way does this violate hipaa compliance. In my opinion. With the mobile features of xchange, i can remotle wipe out any phone synced with the xchange server if i employee was to be let go are lost there mobile.

any thoughs?

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by caverdog

If HIPAA applies to you, it depends on what data your users are allowed to send via E-mail. If there is any PII information it is to be encrypted. Many smart devices do not encrypt. If your users are trained to not have Controlled information via E-mail, you're OK. Don't forget, a user sending information to another user does not go out of your environment and MAY not require encryption, but if it does go out of your environment (via E-mail or portable device) it does. Consider any device that leaves your site to be just like being on the internet. It is an untrusted environment.

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