Or, if you don't care to write your own HIPAA-compliant EHR for your staff-of-five and client-base-of-hundreds, you accept that the whole thing is a big stupid pigfuck but that it's everyone's big stupid pigfuck and move on. It's like speeding on the freeway - if everyone's doing it, the likelihood of being pulled over is proportional to the redness of your car and personal ethnicity, not proportional to speed.

HIPAA, in many ways, is the exact same boondoggle as the Americans with Disabilities Act. 10-20 percent of my audio budget used to be for Assistive Listening Devices because the ADA says you have to assume that 5% of the audience for any given public event is deaf, and you need to provide them headsets, minimum 5. Which means if you have a classroom that seats 20 people, you have to have headsets for 25 percent of the seats. Which means if you have a stadium with 20,000 seats, you've got 200 headsets in a closet somewhere.

Which nobody adhered to. Even the building inspectors knew it was a joke. They wanted to see the regulation "six headsets and an emitter" on every spec sheet because they knew it would never get used.

Commtek, Genter, Listen Technologies... these are companies that exist to make devices no one will ever use because of legislation.

When HIPAA went through I got to start putting in masking systems for every lobby in every medical office.

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