http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/07/03/hipaa-cracy/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/07/03/hipaa-cracy/comment-page-1/#comment-100608 Joe Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:58:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/07/03/hipaa-cracy/#comment-100608 "extremely low risk of sanctions." HITECH seems to aim to correct that omission. But if anything HITECH exaggerates the issues raised in this article under prior HIPAA privacy laws. The HIPAA privacy rule shall be beefed up for contractors with access to patient data lower down the health care pipeline. Agree with the author that there was a problem out there regarding patient privacy but do this byzantine set of HHS rules and regulations really get us to a better place? “extremely low risk of sanctions.”
HITECH seems to aim to correct that omission. But if anything HITECH exaggerates the issues raised in this article under prior HIPAA privacy laws. The HIPAA privacy rule shall be beefed up for contractors with access to patient data lower down the health care pipeline. Agree with the author that there was a problem out there regarding patient privacy but do this byzantine set of HHS rules and regulations really get us to a better place?

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/07/03/hipaa-cracy/comment-page-1/#comment-94201 Resveratrol Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:55:45 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/07/03/hipaa-cracy/#comment-94201 HIPAA is the Clinton-era law that was principally concerned with making health insurance portable, it would be great deal. HIPAA is the Clinton-era law that was principally concerned with making health insurance portable, it would be great deal.

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