Donald Blake wrote about reporting a doctor's office for a HIPAA violation, saying, in part: > I have mixed feelings about
>doing stuff like this, because doctor's visits are so expensive, largely >due to things like malpractice insurance. On the other hand, getting blown >off by everybody involved really ticked me off. The doctors, billing and >credit agency act like it's no big deal. At very least, I think they're >going to find out it may turn out to be an expensive big deal. Yep. If they're not going to take it seriously, there's only one way you can make them do so-and you took it. I've walked out of a doctor's office a few times when they wanted SSN and had no coherent story around data protection. Sorry, guys, not falling for that one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
