Well, tell that to the 384 firms that have been referred to the Department of Justice for HIPAA violations! Now, putting it into perspective for you; since HIPAA was put into law 4 years ago, there have been 26,406 complaints of which 12,535 have been legitimate. Of those, 384 referred to the DOJ or 3.4%. The number is small but I would hate to be a business owner in that 3%. A new website has been launched to update people on areas of HIPAA. It can be found at www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/enforcement. This website provides an better overview of the complaint process, enforcement highlights and examples of complaints. It's actually one of the better websites I have seen which really explains this issue.
It will be interesting to see the penalties assesed. Please take the time to make sure that you have the proper HIPAA compliance in place at your business so you don't wind up in a growing percentages of businesses investigated.
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Very recently I just came across one website which provides a wonderful tool to comply with regulations like HIPAA and it also helps in complying with many other regulations also at the same point. A crosswalk matrix poster between different regulations of Symantec is a very useful tool for compliance team and risk management office. This poster is crosswalk between: ISO 17799, COBIT 4.0, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Payment Card Industry (PCI), GLBA, NERC standards CIP and PIPEDA (Canada). http://www.compliancehome.com/symantec/
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