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A Survey of Dentists [Pilot Study]
By Darrell Pruitt; DDS
A survey of 18 dentists was performed using the Internet as a platform. The dentists were presented with ten HIPAA compliancy requirements followed by a series of questions concerning their compliancy as well as the importance of the requirements in dental practices.
Frustration with the tenets of the mandate, as well as open defiance is evident by the written responses. In addition, it appears that a dentist’s likelihood of satisfying a requirement is related to the dentist’s perceived importance of the requirement.
Even though this is a limited pilot study, there is convincing evidence that more thorough investigation concerning the cost and benefits of the requirements need to be performed before enforcement of the HIPAA mandate is considered for the nation’s dental practices.
Excerpt:
“Dr. Gerald Daniel seems to have captured many of the dentists’ feelings about the HIPAA Rule when he lamented, “We try to comply, however many times I feel every government agency in the country wants to run my practice without regard to the problems, expense or aggravation it causes the health provider.”
READ IT HERE: hipaa-survey-dentists4
GRAPHS: hipaa-survey-graphs1
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