I am posting this here and hoping someone might have some experience in this and be able to help me out with this one.

I am doing some database work for the admin department of a small hospital and I noticed that they have a lot of doctors texting patient info to other doctors and admin.

The problem is that I found out that the HIPAA laws opens the hospital and doctors up to lawsuits if their phone is lost or stolen since they keep the text messages and patient info on the phone.

I mentioned this to the department head, and he asked me to look into a secure texting solution where encrypted (HIPAA compliant ) txt messages can be sent to cell phones from a computer or other phone.

So far the only solution I have found is:

http://www.tigertext.com

Looks like a closed system, with messages that delete themselves so losing a phone doesn’t open up HIPAA related law suits. They are HIPAA compliant.

At 10$ a month per seat is seems very cost effective and easy to implement.

Since it looks like HIPAA is similar to Sarbanes Oxley, I am hoping some IT people are on this forum and can help me out.

What I would like to know is, does anyone have any experience with Tigertext, and does anyone know any other HIPAA compliant systems out there?

What about secure Email?