Resources: How to Text with Your Clients Session 1: Ethics, Safety & HIPAA Compliance
Handout
Secure Texting Apps
Generally, these will fall into categories of apps that qualify for HIPAA’s conduit exception and those that will execute Business Associate Agreements.
Conduits
- Signal. See review⇾
Willing Business Associates
- Spruce Health. See review⇾
- LuxSci Secure Text. See review⇾
- See reviews for secure texting and for secure client messaging
Articles on Texting
- Secure Texting is Cheap and Easy (How to use it, why nonsecure is rarely necessary anymore): https://dev-personcenteredtech.com/2017/11/02/secure-texting-cheap-easy-sms-imessage/
- Documenting Emails and Text Messages: https://dev-personcenteredtech.com/2013/10/17/how-do-you-document-emails-and-text-messages-received-from-clients/
Professionalism in Texting
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