This practical guide to HIPAA compliant email services explains how to ensure 100% compliance by avoiding the common misunderstandings and implementation errors that cause the preventable email failures that lead to breaches and fines. It has become increasingly clear that many aspects of HIPAA compliant email are either not understood or badly implemented, leaving a large number of healthcare organizations of all sizes wrongly believing their email is both secure and HIPAA compliant. Unfortunately, many easily preventable issues only come to light after it is too late and a breach has taken place.The Office for Civil Rights receives around 60,000 notifications of data breaches each year, of which many thousands are wrongful disclosures of Personal Health Information (PHI) attributable to email failure.