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Striving for HIPAA Compiance?

Posted by Cliff on from the forcibly-changing-the-way-you-work dept.

krisguy asks: "As a Oxygen Transfill Technician for a DME (Durable Medical Equipment - wheelchairs, oxygen, and such) company, my only regulatory problems have been with the FDA. Recently, due to good management of FDA regulations, I was appointed HIPAA security officer for my company. I looked at the 'helpful' compliance manual from our buying group, and realized that I have to try to get over twenty people who have 'limited knowledge of computers' (read: don't want to learn) to begin to use stuff like PGP, ANSI X12 codes, and having to write, train, and enforce procedure rules. To top this all off, I only have until April 14, 2003 to get most of this fully functional or forced to have the company shut down. I am wondering if any Slashdot readers in medical fields are feeling the pain of HIPAA like I am right now, and what ways can I get everyone to comply besides "You don't do it, you don't work here."?" Ask Slashdot last touched on HIPAA issues when this article which concerned itself with Windows 2000 and HIPAA issues. For those who have already hopped thru the rings that represent HIPAA compliance on an general basis, what did you have to insure was done?

7 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. Misleading... by httpamphibio.us · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought this was about some new car club for cool people.

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  2. This sounds like a management problem. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Since you work with oxygen, I would suggest making it worth their while by giving those who comply with your procedures a small bottle of the 'good stuff' to suck on at their desk.

    You could accelerate compliance by filling the office full of acrid smoke from a bad power supply, or making Friday 'Nitrous Oxide Day'.

  3. Or from what i am seeing....Don't comply.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have done some work with a few companies regarding becoming compliant. They pretty much across the board have decided not to do so. I find it pretty amusing.

  4. Re:2002 by SN74S181 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Universal ID proposals are not really even being considered at this time and won't be until Democrats are back at the helm.

    Wow, now you've made me enthusiastic about voting Democrat, dude.

  5. Hypothetical Question, Just Checking by Lucas+Membrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I get a prescription for some of my personal hygiene needs (for tax and insurance purposes), and go to a MegaMegaMart Pharmacy to buy them, and carry them to the cash register, and the checkout clerk gets on the public address and hollers "PRICE CHECK ON _use_your_imagination_here_, GIANT ECONOMY SIZE" again, can I sue?

  6. Compliance by Luveno · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank God I work for a financial services company where we don't get any (tangible) oversight at all.

  7. Re:Oh, no! by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what you're saying is that the government is a HIPAAAcrit ?

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