Comments on: HIPAA is broken

By: techguy

techguy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:11:09 +0000

This policy is a joke. It would never hold up in law and you of course wouldn't be liable or subject to changes that are made. It is just a poorly worded privacy policy. The crazy thing is that HIPAA only requires you to have a privacy policy, but there's no controls to make it good, enforceable or appropriate.

By: Milton

Milton — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:04:04 +0000

There can be debate on this issue but I think this organization had created their own policy statement. There is no such point mentioned in the original HIPAA policy as per my knowledge.

By: techguy

techguy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:10:32 +0000

This policy is a joke. It would never hold up in law and you of course wouldn’t be liable or subject to changes that are made. It is just a poorly worded privacy policy. The crazy thing is that HIPAA only requires you to have a privacy policy, but there’s no controls to make it good, enforceable or appropriate.

By: Fusioncube » Blog Archive » More Government Stupidity (or is it ours)

Fusioncube » Blog Archive » More Government Stupidity (or is it ours) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:48:33 +0000

[...] Read his article to see exactly how HIPAA wrote the policy so that they could thumb their noses at privacy any time they want to. [...]

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:27:35 +0000

“It seems to me the way to fix this idiocy is not through consolidating things with more over-arching government policy that applies to all medical providers but rather by purposefully fragmenting the data and eradicating the policies to give people choices as to who they can deal with. People will vote with their wallets as to which policies are reasonable.”

Right on, thank you.

By: Scott Stroz

Scott Stroz — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:11:47 +0000

I think the wording in the privacy statement is to cover themselves should HIPAA regulations change, and they need to update the privacy statement.

If I remember correctly, the privacy statements are not issued by HIPAA, rather HIPAA mandates that health care providers have privacy statements that meet their guidelines.

I worked in the health care field for a long time, and while the guidelines are, sometimes a pain to follow, they are ultimately there to protect the patient (which in some cases may be ourselves)