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It’s Back: HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement

Written by Ardena L. Flippin, MD, MBA

HIPAA investigations by year.
Data from the HHS

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal regulations to protect medical privacy and give patients greater control over their personal health information, was implemented in April of 2003. There was lots of flurry and concern, and then it all seemed to die down because the enforcement and threats of prosecution for violations didn’t really happen in the numbers that were anticipated.

Well, it seems as though the enforcement beast is rearing its ugly head again.

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Health care — a right or a privelege

Written by Jeffrey R. Waggoner, MD

Imagine walking across the parking lot of your supermarket. You come upon a man rolling around in agony, clutching his chest. Through teeth clenched in pain, he says, “An elephant! There is an elephant sitting on my chest.”

You step over him, muttering to your spouse, “Must be having a heart attack. Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone actually say that. The books use it as a classic complaint, but to actually hear it? Interesting. But how crass to collapse here, in the middle of the parking lot.”

You continue into the supermarket to buy your organic vegetables, angry at the man’s having inconvenienced you but not particularly concerned about his plight.

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