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19,420 HIPAA complaints, no fines: Washington Post
From: Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:10:06 -0500
"Our first approach to dealing with any complaint is to work for voluntary compliance. So far it's worked out pretty well," said Winston Wilkinson, who heads the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, which is in charge of enforcing the law. While praised by hospitals, insurance plans and doctors, the approach has drawn strong criticism from privacy advocates and some health industry analysts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/04/ AR2006060400672.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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