booooooooooo "I want to acquire stuff by my preferred means and then be left alone with my stuff" isn't a noble philosophy, especially when applied so rigidly. A consistently base opinion ought not be considered laudable for being consistent. "Don't fuck with me" is fine... so long as we can agree with what "fuck with me" means. "I won't fuck with you" is fine... so long as it's enforceable. These two caveats- group consensus and outside enforcement- constitute the pillars of social contract, which happens to be the antithesis of libertarianism, which essentially champions a return to state of nature. Which is garbage. That doesn't even touch on my objection to the kind of social values (or lack thereof) libertarianism naturally espouses. But I gotta get back to studying HIPAA right now, so I'll quit while I'm not bleeding out of all my face holes.
I've become a great fan of HIPAA since being dragged kicking and screaming into the corporate world, because "we need to devote some time to protecting our users' privacy, because not doing that would be irresponsible" does not move The Powers That Be, but "we need to devote some time to protecting our users' privacy because HIPAA" does, The Powers That Be not caring about all about doing things right if it costs them money but caring quite a bit about avoiding legal troubles. I like regulations that force The Powers That Be to let me do things closer to right. Without them I have to lie a lot... I hated it when I worked at a nonprofit, when we only had to pay attention to it when it turned out to proscribe something strictly inferior to what we planned to do.
According to elfassy, once you use this it's not longer compliant. Let's just build it out fully compliant without fax bandaids
It is truly a blunt tool for good. I've been known to rant rather a lot about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the twisted and ridiculous ways in which it is used. But the fact of the matter is, it's done an awful lot to allow disabled individuals to lead more normal, more comfortable lives. HIPAA is similar - it's a broad set of guidelines that permit people to sue over privacy which is more than the Constitution allows.
Had a boss who got to have lunch with some of the people who wrote the ADA. They copped to the fact that their legislation was deliberately vague on the presumption that caselaw would refine the regs. In plain English, "We expect a lot of people to be sued over their interpretations of our wording, and we see that as a good thing."
Laws aren't designed that way but in engineering world 2% might instead be a number that could guarantee sufficient access 95% of the time. Also according to Google 1/10 of all Americans have a severe disability so 2% is actually an underrepresented portion if you don't account for other factors
I think the worst I've ever gotten from the ADA has been needing to give screen readers something to say for visualizations and other features that are only useful if you can see, rather than just letting them ignore things that are useless to their users. I'm sure everyone using a screenreader just moves on without a second thought, but I always felt like drawing their attention to things they couldn't use was a little too much like taunting them.
It wasn't libertarian politics I praised, just the inclinations that give rise to them. I don't think "I want to acquire stuff by my preferred means and then be left alone with my stuff" is the core there, it's "I don't want to have obligations I didn't opt in to forced upon me." I find Libertarian politics frustrating, but mostly because they're the only sort of antiauthoritarian politics with any kind of momentum in America and they're the party of let the capitalists have their way with all of us, so not really antiauthoritarian at all.
I once wrote a database for Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco that contained all the ICD-9 and CPT codes. Since it was a text file import into the database, I had to go through both datasets and read EVERY SINGLE ONE of them to ensure there were no spurious characters or other weirdnesses. Man... Other Contact With A Turtle, sequel... brings back memories... (and that is a GREAT name for a band!)
Hahahaha holy shit... those are real ICD-10 codes? How many times does something like that have to happen to merit its own code?