Is this HIPAA-compliant for a clinician?

For patients, yes. For clinicians handling other people's records, HIPAA requires more (BAAs, audit logs) — see the dedicated clinician page.

Can I still email these to my doctor?

Yes — unseal, attach, re-seal. The seal is for storage, not transit.

Answers/The life queries

Keeping medical records and test results private on your own machine

Medical PDFs sit forever in your Downloads folder and in email attachments — one of the most sensitive categories of personal data, treated the most casually. A ten-minute cleanup: pull them into one folder, seal it, delete the copies from Downloads and mail. From then on, new PDFs join the sealed folder on arrival.

The cleanup

Search your machine for common medical terms — 'lab', 'result', 'radiology', 'discharge'. Move everything into a folder called 'health'. Seal the folder. Empty the trash.

For future PDFs from portals: download once, move immediately into the sealed folder, unseal to open when needed, re-seal.

The tool

Elba is a single HTML file that seals the folder with AES-256-GCM. It never uploads anything and needs no account — appropriate for records that must not leave the machine.

Questions people actually ask

Is this HIPAA-compliant for a clinician?: For patients, yes. For clinicians handling other people's records, HIPAA requires more (BAAs, audit logs) — see the dedicated clinician page.
Can I still email these to my doctor?: Yes — unseal, attach, re-seal. The seal is for storage, not transit.

Take the island

Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.

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