I know that QIE can send email using the qie.sendEmail function, but what about Secure Email?

Question

How can I send an email from QIE securely, in case I have PHI information to deliver?

Answer 1

While QIE does not natively support sending secure email (the same way that QIE does not host an SMTP server for regular mail)....  if your current secure email provider offers a web service for sending Secure Email, you could configure QIE to take advantage of that service.

One such provider (and free), is Sendinc. (not advertising!)

https://www.sendinc.com/

you can setup the web service connection using the following connection information:

they offer some instruction on how to utilize the API here:

http://support.sendinc.com/support/solutions/articles/155292-rest-api

here is a short code snippet to send a basic email:

Answer 2

In addition, in order to include an attachment with this kind of web service, you need to adjust how you package the information  (ie: not a URL encoded parameter list, but instead a multipart message with proper attachment encoding) as well as changing how you call the webservice (content encoded, rather than URL encoded)

 

The web service function expects not only a content section, but also a content type. The example shows application/xml and application/json.

For this use case, we have to specify that it is a multipart message (including the boundary)

here is an example, sample content section which includes the email, recipients, message body, and a CSV attachment.