BBallad:

HIPAA isn't as bad as many make out.... In fact the clarification statements made during the process rely _very_ heavily on the fact that they aren't intended to hinder the "process". The HIPAA regs actually do a pretty good job, (disregard the fact that they wrote the privacy portion before they wrote the security portion... That's Gubmint... ), of trying to allow the "practice" of healthcare to continue unfettered while "alerting" those who didn't understand that there are consequences to allowing personal confidential data to "leak" into the public domain that there is a problem.

We have an issue with a funding source right now that has complete morons running their IT... Actually, they are complete morons from the boss man down, but that is a whole other subject..... They are insisting on certain things in terms of file format.... Yep, it's the crux of the "portability" part, I understand that.... but they are insisting that we follow the format... Now, here's the "fun" part... They want us to provide them, per the file format, with information we don't hold.... They do.... But, they won't give us that information because _we_ aren't entitled to see it.... Which is fair.... But then, if we don't provide that information - we don't get paid for services provided!!!!!

Can you see how foxxing idiots are going to mess up perfectly good piece of legislation? I can....