Health Information Management

HIPAA compliance starts in the C-Suite

HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 17, 2009

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The economic recession probably brought healthcare CEOs closer to their organizations’ day-to-day activities. New federal HIPAA laws should have, too.

Daniel Nutkis, CEO of The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), believes compliance with HIPAA privacy and security starts from the top.

“Our experience shows that the more executive management and the board of directors are engaged in understanding the challenges and issues the more diligent the organization is in addressing information protection,” says Nutkis. “HITRUST has seen a significant increase in the number of organizations that have added information protection as a component of their overall corporate responsibility measure or corporate philosophy.”

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