# Email lab results straight to a patient

> Send results, reminders and notifications from your own application with a REST API. Every message is encrypted in transit and covered by a BAA, and the patient reads it in their regular inbox.

**Product:** Paubox Email API  
**Page:** https://www.paubox.com/solutions/use-cases/email-lab-results-to-patients  
**Category:** Email API

## From your application to the patient's inbox

Your application already knows when a result is ready. The Paubox Email API sends the notification, with the report attached, encrypted with TLS 1.2 or higher. If a patient's mail server can't accept an encrypted connection, the message goes to the Secure Message Center rather than out unencrypted. You can check delivery and open status for every message.

## How it helps

### Never sent unencrypted
If a recipient's server can't accept TLS, the message is delivered through a secure portal instead

### Know it arrived
Check delivery and open status for each message, or receive webhook events as they happen

### A BAA on every plan
Including the free tier, with 300 emails a month and SDKs in ten languages

## Who this is for

Health tech teams sending results or appointment reminders, labs and specialty providers notifying patients directly, and anyone moving off an email provider that won't sign a BAA.

## Prompt you can paste into an AI assistant

```text
We want to email lab results to patients directly from our application. Explain how the Paubox Email API keeps those messages HIPAA compliant, what happens if a patient's email server can't accept encryption, and why we'd use it over a general-purpose email provider.
```

## Get started

Sign up for Paubox Email API. It has a free plan with 300 emails a month.

- Start for free: https://next.paubox.com/signup?order_name=paubox_email_api_order&plan_name=standard&unit_count=300&plan_type=annual
- See all use cases: https://www.paubox.com/solutions/use-cases
- Pricing for every plan: https://www.paubox.com/pricing.md

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