Niko Karvounis expounds on Jay Parkinson’s HIPAA rant:
So if they’re not enforced, what is the point of HIPAA’s privacy stipulations? Parkinson and others have an idea: the creation of new market opportunities for potential profiteers. Instituting PHI measures makes compliance a huge problem (at least on paper) in need of new solutions—i.e. new technologies, consultation, and contracts . . .
. . . It’s clear that the scope of HIPAA has not been thought out—it’s more of a sketchy principle than an actual policy. But is this vagueness due to the greed of those who wanted to give birth to a compliance industry, or to a lack of foresight?
