Editing secured fillable pdf forms

How do I edit a pdf form that is password protected?

These are forms that contain confidential personal health information and the organization's policy is to not allow users to edit and save this information on their computers. However, I have heard that some staff are able to unlock the form and edit and save, send by email to others.
I assume it's also the organization's policy that employees should not do this, and if they do they can/will be dismissed. If it's not, it should be.
For content that needs to be protected this way, regardless of what form it's in, you need to provide access control so that unauthorized access is not allowed/possible. This can be done for PDF content using digital rights management (DRM) technology, like that provided by Adobe's LiveCycle Rights Management product, but this is enterprise-level software with a price tag and other associated costs to match. Such software makes documents unreadable unless opened by an authorized user, and the security cannot be removed by Acrobat or anything else. If a document is in possession by an unauthorized recipient, they won't be able to open it. This is a simplification, but the point is it can be used in a HIPAA and similar types of regulatory compliant systems.

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