[medinformatics] Health Care Firms Weak on Meeting HIPAA Security Rules Deadline

[Medical Informatics News]

The data security rules mandated by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) take effect next week on April 20, 2005. But, according to
recent surveys by two industry associations,*most health care companies won’t be fully compliant with the new
rules by then.

Quoted in a ComputerWorld article, Joyce Sensmeier, director of informatics at the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in
Chicago said, “There’s not been a lot of forward momentum with HIPAA’s security piece, which we find quite
disconcerting.” HIMSS surveyed 400 health care firms earlier this year. Only 18% of the providers and 30% of the
insurers that responded said they would be compliant by next week’s deadline.


The American Health Information Management Association, plans to release the
results of a survey it conducted in
January among privacy, security and compliance officers. A mere 18% of the 1,140 respondents said their companies
were fully compliant with HIPAA security rules, but another 44% said they were close to achieving compliance.



ReadPermalink*|*Email this*|*Comments









Ads by Google



http://www.medicalinformaticsinsider...ules-deadline/