Episode 629: Does HIPAA Require TLS 1.2+ for Email? What Practices Actually Need to Know
Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech.
In our latest episode, we answer a listener question and provide clarification on whether securing outbound email in Google Workspace (as discussed in Episode 623) would constitute a HIPAA violation.
We discuss:
Why blanket claims about HIPAA violations or HIPAA requirements from service providers or vendors raise our ethical hackles
Opportunistic vs. forced TLS
Legacy TLS and how it would be used with the forced TLS setting configured in Google Workspace
What HIPAA actually…
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