On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Michael Miller wrote:
IIRC, HIPAA only requires a good faith effort for WiFi security and
the use of routers that were not built pre-draft. So no Airport
Extreme, but they could do Linksys 802.11g or something.
Of course they could, but their brains shut off upon encountering the
words "lawsuit" and "fines" and few bother to explore the issue any
further. Plus a lot of IT consultants purposely feed them
misinformation since they can charge a whole lot more to fish cable
through the walls than they can to spend 15 minutes setting up a $50
router from Best Buy. Your average doctor would rather write a check
than think about what constitutes a good business decision, and even
those that fully realize they're being scammed seldom do anything
about it because they simply don't have the time to shop around.
I talked to one doctor who was paying $500/mo for a $2 shared
webhosting account, and his site didn't even work.
