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Enhance Practice Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction with Secure Mail

In direct response to national trends showing that patients want to communicate with their physicians via email, Medical Society Services, Inc. (MSS), the for-profit arm of the Medical Society, has partnered with Verizon/Echoworx to give MSDC members access to an email encryption product that safeguards physician-to-patient as well as physician-to-physician communications. MSDC members will receive a discount as part of the agreement.

Until recently, most encryption solutions have been cumbersome, expensive and difficult to implement, which has prevented many small- to mid-sized physician practices from using secure email products. The new MSS Secure Mail takes advantage of the latest technology to create a cost-effective, easy-to-use communication tool.

This product allows users to easily encrypt email messages and attachments, protecting the privacy of their contents at the desktop as they travel from the sender to the recipient.

Each time a subscriber wants to protect sensitive patient information, he/she can press the "secure" icon. The email along with its attachments is encrypted at the sender's desktop and remains encrypted until the intended recipient decrypts the message. An MSS Secure Mail subscriber can send a secure email message to anyone, including contacts or patients that are not subscribers of the service. Non-subscribers will get an email telling them that they have received an encrypted email; they can click on a password-protected link to retrieve it at the web-based Message Pickup Center.

CLICK HERE for more information on MSS Secure Mail and to sign up.

MSDC is working with its allies and the City Council to protect the health of District residents by passing medical liability reform.

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