1. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit a doctor, laboratory, or other health care provider to share patient health information for treatment purposes by fax, e-mail, or over the phone?
2. Can a health care provider FAX patient medical information to another health care provider?
3. Are fax imaging and voice response transmissions subject to the HIPAA Transactions Standards?
4. How do the HIPAA regulations impact patient data that is faxed?
5. Do faxes from a fax machine (not a fax modem) to another fax machine fall under the scrutiny of the security rules?
6. Although fax machine-to-fax machine transmissions may not be "officially" covered under the law, isn’t it true that any paper copy of patients’ confidential information must be secured?