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HIPAA compliance is seldom total
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Quick View. Posted June 5, 2006
Health care organizations are essentially compliant with HIPAA, but most of them aren't 100% compliant even though the privacy and security regulations became law in April 2003 and April 2005 respectively.
A recently released survey found that a key reason for less than full compliance is a lack of resources and administrative support. For example, budget issues are impacting the level of privacy training and monitoring that a privacy officer or staff are capable of providing. Privacy officers report that they sense a loss of support from senior management in ensuring that their facility is aware of the need for privacy and providing enough funding to educate and train employees. The survey results are based on responses from 1,117 hospitals and integrated delivery systems.
Source: American Health Information Management Assn.
