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Hi, I’m Gil Vidals of hipaavault. Today, I am going to talk briefly about encrypted email and really, whether you need to use it or not. And the answer to that question is: if you are sending sensitive information then you better use encrypted email. Sensitive information is in 3 categories: Personal, Financial and Health. Personal would be a birthday or social security number. Financial is like a credit card. Health would be like someone’s blood pressure or medical records. If you are going to be communicating any of that information via email, you better use an encrypted email client.