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by Mistletoe
1207 days ago
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I’m imagining a utopia now where my privacy was protected as well as my medical data is with HIPAA. Some of my family works in medicine and there is nothing that scares the pants off of medical administration more than a HIPAA data breach. There are real penalties for it from the government and they have to be reported. People responsible get fired. |
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I'm imagining a utopia in which our medical data is as well protected as people think it is under HIPAA.
> Some of my family works in medicine and there is nothing that scares the pants off of medical administration more than a HIPAA data breach. There are real penalties for it from the government and they have to be reported. People responsible get fired.
The penalties are usually in the tens of thousands of dollars. That sounds like a lot, but it's really not when you consider that most breaches for which fines are levied usually affect many patients, not just one, and when you consider the annual revenue and margins of most of these responsible parties.
The fines are capped by statute at a value (about $1.5 million for all violations of a provision in a single year) that is laughably low.