Indeed I do Mr. Thompson! That is what is so frightening. Whether it is an unfortunate mistake, or a deliberate act, I can indeed be fined, and possibly face criminal charges.
I do not know what your political leanings are, nor do I wish to know, but as one who is not in agreement with the present administration, I fear that I could be targeted by unscrupulous government workers. We have only to look at the actions of the IRS in recent years. Whether those actions were instigated from above, or simply the actions of rouge employees, the result to their victims was the same. --- [email protected] wrote: From: Steve Thompson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:16:00 -0400 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
