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HIPAA Humor: Dumb Robber

Here's a story that gave me a bit of a chuckle, "Note leads police to robbery arrest"...

Last Friday (5/30/08) a man tried to rob a Dairy Queen in Chicago and handed a note demanding money to an employee there. The employee ran to the back of the store and the robber ran out the door and robbed a dry cleaners before returning to his home.

The robbery note was written on the back of a doctor's stationery, and it had the name and address of the suspect. The police went to the address a little later in the day and indeed found the robber.

The part I got a chuckle from was...

"You have to be careful what kind of stationery you write your robbery statement on," Hayes [Police Chief Fred Hayes] said. "We were a little concerned about violating HIPAA rules."

The sad thing is, it is likely he really was serious when he mentioned concern about HIPAA! There is so much misunderstanding out there about it and what must be done for compliance...

Chief Hayes, you are not a healthcare covered entity (provider, insurer, or clearinghouse)...this is not a situation that would have gotten your department into any trouble specifically with regard to HIPAA!

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 5, 2008 2:37 PM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.