I work for a pharmacy in a state that requires all prescriptions to be written specifically for each patient. It used to be that a doctor could order hundreds of syringes for us to perform eye procedures but now the doctor has to order a syringe for each patient. So we have been trying to figure out the best way to get all the patient information over confidentially instead of requiring hundreds of little script pads.

Anyway . . . my Excel question . . . one method we were considering was having the doctor just export his patients to an excel spreadsheet, apply some sort of encryption/protection on the information, and email the document. We looked at email encryption solutions but thought it would be better to protect the information actually in the spreadsheet. I found this solution for excel http://www.iri.com/products/cellshield but was really unfamiliar with add-ins. Does anyone have any advice or have used anything like this add-in for data protection?