REQUEST TO RECEIVE RESULTS VIA TEXT-MESSAGING
To facilitate your timely receipt of testing results, UMC offers patients the ability to receive their testing results via unencrypted methods of electronic communication, such as text messaging. Due to the nature of unencrypted electronic messages, transmitted information may be vulnerable to be read by unauthorized third parties, inadvertently addressed to the wrong party, or improperly accessed during transmission or storage. With full knowledge and understanding of these risks, I request that UMC, or any UMC employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor, provides me with my COVID-19 testing results via the following means of unsecured electronic communication: