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QUESTION POSED ON: 25 October 2002
Who is going to enforce the privacy and security regulations to all healthcare entities? Does the goverment has the bandwith to do so?
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The Office for Civil Rights, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that is responsible for HIPAA, will enforce the HIPAA Privacy
Rule. It was recently announced that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services) is going to be responsible for enforcing the HIPAA Transactions and
Code Sets Rule. It has not yet been determined who will enforce the HIPAA
Security Rule. Perhaps that will be included in the final HIPAA Security Rule
that is due out at any time. Regarding government bandwidth, the enforcement
piece of HIPAA will most likely fall in line with all other governmental
enforcement agencies that run on minimum resources and could indeed be the
weakest link in the HIPAA chain.
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