And with Passport I can give my patients better care. He said with his Passport connection, he doesn t have to wait to return to the MUSC campus to check lab reports and charts. He has immediate access to his patients and he can respond just as quickly when he sees something wrong. Yes to the first question, No, but soon we will to the second. Computer experts have developed many ways to keep prying eyes and electronic sniffers out of confidential data sent over the Internet.
Most methods involve sophisticated encryption schemes.
While no method can guarantee absolute security, neither is the paper record absolutely secure. The fact is that crackers who try to intercept and decrypt data that s been encrypted with modern security need tremendous resources lots of money, lots of computers, lots of time to successfully decrypt a single piece of secured information. And even if one message is cracked, the rest of the information is still safe since the key that decrypts one message is usually different from the key that decrypts the next message. The federal government has realized the Internet s value to medicine. Basically, the regulations say that any modern encryption method will suffice.