Comments on: HIPAA as a means to profit? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hipaa-as-means-to-profit.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Compliance Advisor http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hipaa-as-means-to-profit.html/comment-page-1#comment-81959 Compliance Advisor Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/hipaa-as-a-means-to-profit.html#comment-81959 I would like to introduce one website for your website visitors if they are interested to know more about HIPAA compliance. How big and small business associates are effected with HIPAA? and also how they can deal with HIPAA regulations along with many other regulations which are important for many small and big business, the regulations like SOX, OSHA, ISO17799, etc. This website acts as a resource to find more information on many different regulatory authorities http://www.compliancehome.com/topics/HIPAA/ I would like to introduce one website for your website visitors if they are interested to know more about HIPAA compliance. How big and small business associates are effected with HIPAA? and also how they can deal with HIPAA regulations along with many other regulations which are important for many small and big business, the regulations like SOX, OSHA, ISO17799, etc. This website acts as a resource to find more information on many different regulatory authorities http://www.compliancehome.com/topics/HIPAA/

]]> By: Robert Horn http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hipaa-as-means-to-profit.html/comment-page-1#comment-81680 Robert Horn Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/hipaa-as-a-means-to-profit.html#comment-81680 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 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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