Formating E-mail sent from form
- This is probably a amateurish question, but I'm having trouble finding the answer.
I have created a form which the user fills out (medical history for example) and hits the 'submit' button.
The 'submit' button allows for the information to be sent to an e-mail with or without the field names (other options also, but nothing worthwhile in help).
When the e-mail is received, the fields along with the values entered arrive in tabular form (field names in first column, values in second).
What I want to do, is have the e-mailed information show up looking like a filled in form.
It does not matter if the values cannot be separated from the form (like csv file) since the completed form will just be put into the patient jacket 'as is'.
My programming background is in BBX, VB, Foxpro 9. I don't have a problem with HTML or ASPX, but I would appreciate being able to do this simply whenever I make new forms.
Any ideas or can you point me to relevant information?
Thanks,
Mark Anthony
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- What is processing the form? Post a link.
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Get a Complete Website Analysis by Veign I have created a form which the user fills out (medical history for example) and hits the 'submit' button.
The 'submit' button allows for the information to be sent to an e-mail with or without the field names (other options also, but nothing worthwhile in help).
Please tell me you aren't really trying to collect medical history information this way.
I'm serious because you are violating several laws and exposing every person concerned with this site and medical practice to liability. That information is protected under HIPPA. Any transmission over an unsecured connection much less using plain old unencrypted email is
Marking sure that the form, how it is stored/process/transmitted is something that is best left to a professional and mean someone with development and security experience. If you really want to do this yourself you will need to not only learn how to process a form server side but how to secure it as well. When we do forms for clients that are subject to HIPPA we use secure storage on the server and an SSL encrypted form. The person responsible for received the information then gets an email telling them to log into the secured area to download the results via an ecrypted connection.
MS MVP Expression Tutorials & Help http://by-expression.com and online instructor led Expression ClassesSorry to echo another comment, but Cheryl is right on the money. I did a site for a health group a few years ago and the HIPPA hoops I had to go through were pretty strict. In the end I didn't bother trying to meet their requirments and instead used a pre-existing portal I linked the site to, so that I could let others worry about the security!
Please be SURE you're HIPPA compliant.
Andy- Nitpicking--it's spelled HIPAA (just in case anyone is searching for what the regulations cover). They cover everything related to client privacy, including storage and transfer of patient information, whether physical or electronic and whether it even leaves the doctor's office.
This is not a matter to be taken lightly, as Cheryl and Andy noted. - I knew what i typed looked wrong...!
- Well I was typing off the top of my head without looking at the actual act. It isn't something I deal with every day so Bill's correction of the acrynm is appreciated.
MS MVP Expression Tutorials & Help http://by-expression.com and online instructor led Expression Classes - Cheryl,
I saw the reference to med records earlier today, but didn't have time to reply. Thanks for bringing up a very important issue.
When I was in the fire service we had to participate in detailed HIPAA training because our EMT protocol required that we ask patients pertinent questions about their history. We actually passed information on to the EMT-P's (paramedics) on the ambulance verbally, so that we did not run the risk of having any written info around the station where it's security could be compromised.
As you point out, an unsecure e-mail message containing info that falls under HIPAA would be a very bad thing. I hope the OP and/or his employer rethinks this one.
-Preston
Columbia, CA. USA The Gilded Moon-Sierra Nevada Photography - "We actually passed information on to the EMT-P's (paramedics) on the ambulance verbally, so that we did not run the risk of having any written info around the station where it's security could be compromised."
;-)
Plural's don't have apostrophe's. It seem's sometime's that any word's ending in "s" get a gratuitous apostrophe. Apostrophe's are used to indicate possessive's and elision's (contraction's or abbreviation's).
