The government plans to begin enforcing the HIPAA security rule on April 21, ready or not.
Radiology departments may be better equipped to deal with the new requirements because they have historically been more technologically advanced.. Most departments were electronically reading and viewing scans and signing reviews long before other areas of medicine even considered doing so, says Lawrence "Doc" Muhlbaier, a HIPAA expert at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.
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