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User Rank: Apprentice
7/31/2014 | 1:18:19 PM
It's not totally surprising, given the numerous scandals involved with celebrity cell phones being hacked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal.
I agree 100% about the rules being confusing.
As far as your friend emailing a pdf to the hospital, if it is her personal information, there is no rule against her emailing her information to anyone she wants. I suspect the hospital simply is not set up to deal with email that contains protected health information once it is received. In other words, your friend is free to risk the information being intercepted and read on its way to the hospital's mail server, but once it reaches the server, the hospital is responsible for maintaining the privacy of your friend's information.