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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [48 HOURS] What is Microsoft becoming?

Eh.

Issues like this are always complaint-enforced. So everything is fine until a patient files a lawsuit. Then your piece of paper won't be worth the paper it was written on.

"And your infrastructure isn't HIPAA compliant, either. So add another quarter million onto the award for lack of proper network infrastructure."

I rail because the technologically correct answer is inadvertently the wrong legal answer. And that shit pisses me off, because it's gonna be the little practitioners who mashed a button on their iPad who get screwed.





kleinbl00  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't matter. The lawyers always go after the deep pockets and the deep pockets are never the individual practitioner. Besides which, a malpractice suit isn't going to be about medical records, a records leak suit is going to be about medical records and then the practitioner points at the waiver and says "talk to my EMR."

Rail all you want. Actual HIPAA compliance matters fuckall compared to perceived HIPAA compliance, and perceived compliance is "there's an app for that."