HIPAA complaints on the rise in 2005, SHARP says
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 25, 2004
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There's no end in sight to HIPAA complaints. At least not according to the Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), a workgroup that looked at and assessed the nearly 7,500 HIPAA complaints filed through June 2004.
The cause for the increase in complaints next year? The bottleneck from flaws in the correcting formats and slow dispatch of legal information to consumers, Gloria Steinberg, a member of SHARP's Workgroup board, told Healthcare IT News. Consumers will also make more complaints once they better understand the rule.
So far, the Office of Civil Rights has closed 55% of complaints related to privacy because of lack of jurisdiction or discovery that the actions did not violate HIPAA.
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