How does My HealtheVet protect privacy and promote security?
Privacy is protected in multiple ways: This is an “OPT-IN” site. No information about a veteran as an individual is placed in this site without his/her first requesting it or entering it. By policy, My HealtheVet does not distribute any information about veterans or their visits to the My HealtheVet web site without specific permission by the veteran. All information is protected as it is being transmitted between the PC and the server. The industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol is used to encrypt all information that contains any information for veterans. All of data is protected, as it is stored on the disk. The data is encrypted, so that only the veteran can read what is stored in his/her private health record. Each veteran’s records are encrypted using keys unique to that veteran. Even the systems managers can see only encrypted blobs of bits. The My HealtheVet record is kept secure using several techniques: The Web servers are protected by firewalls that are constant
