Is it harder to enforce HIPAA? The answer should be no, but reality says otherwise.
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The article sites the following as a reason for physician privacy in hospitals:
“….. would you go to see a physician if you knew he had a pre-existing medical condition that might affect your treatment or perhaps affect him during a surgical case?”
Do doctors truly believe they have a right to hide knowledge of a medical condition that might harm a patient during surgery? So the chance that he might lose business trumps patient safety.
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