Understand the following:
- An email can be forwarded or changed without the knowledge or permission of the original sender.
- The email is not encrypted.
- Exchanging records by unencrypted email is vulnerable to interception and hacking by unauthorised third parties.
- Emails can be accessed on portable devices
- The email service may not be able to handle the file sizes these images require.
- I have considered communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax, or mail.
- There is the possibility of human error when manually typing in e-mail addresses.
I hereby authorise Mt Barker Balhannah Medical Clinics to provide my medical records via email and I only need to fill this form out once as blanket consent. I will notify Mt Barker Balhannah Medical Clinics when I wish to cease my health information being sent by email.
