Niko Karvounis expounds on Jay Parkinson’s HIPAA rant:
So if they’re not enforced, what is the point of HIPAA’s privacy stipulations? Parkinson and others have an idea: the creation of new market opportunities for potential profiteers. Instituting PHI measures makes compliance a huge problem (at least on paper) in need of new solutions””i.e. new technologies, consultation, and contracts . . .. . . It’s clear that the scope of HIPAA has not been thought out””it’s more of a sketchy principle than an actual policy. But is this vagueness due to the greed of those who wanted to give birth to a compliance industry, or to a lack of foresight?
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First, HIPAA is enforced, but equally true it is widely mis-interpreted. Like most regulations, it became a bogey man used by consultants and empire builders to justify all kinds of absurdities.
The actual origin of the regulations was an attempt to write regulations such that the privacy policies and laws that were already in place at that time could apply to the new world of electronics. It was not supposed to be any better or worse than the paper and film privacy and security. Congress did not authorize such changes in the original law. They could have, it was proposed, it did not happen, so the regulators had clear guidance to try to reproduce the existing level of security and privacy.
Secure email has always acceptable, regardless of the nonsense from the empire builders. Would you send this information in a sealed letter by physical mail? then it’s OK by secure email. Would you send this information by postcard in physical mail? then it’s OK by regular email.
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