Are lazy employees invoking HIPAA to skirt work?
I’m a general surgeon and I still practice as well as being a medical school administrator, and I have very little problems in general in getting the information I need from other facilities. Of course, there are always people who are looking for a reason not to do their jobs and nowadays they can invoke HIPAA.









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