If you're about to do the training, it might behoove you to get "HIPAA" right. Mnemonic: it's not "hippo with an A", it's got two As.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: > You do realize that the corporate veil was removed in the case of HIPPA > data about 2 years ago? That was explained to me when I went to work for a > health insurance company. > > We can be fined $5000 per violation (minimum fine as I recall). > > And I'm about to have to take the annual certification class... > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > On 09/18/2015 04:29 PM, Richard Pinion wrote: > >> As an employee of a company who deals with HIPPA controlled/protected >> data, I feel >> very uncomfortable knowing that I can be charged either with a civil or >> criminal >> violation in the event that HIPPA data, under my control, is accidentally >> lost or >> stolen. And I am not talking about an intentional leak of protected >> patient >> information. What really floored me this year, when I took the yearly >> HIPPA >> certification online class, was HIPPA is administered under the Office of >> Civil >> Rights. >> >> Regardless of my personal political theology, it makes me uncomfortable >> that >> if I offend a person or persons, the friendly neighborhood OCR >> representative >> could be asked to "look at" my activities as relating to HIPPA >> compliance. I'm >> sure an unbiased and diligent OCR employee might uncover some >> violation(s) if they >> investigated long and hard enough. >> > <snippage> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
