Is HIPAA compliance a top priority of healthcare providers?

It does not appear so, because many healthcare providers have not even looked at it for years. There were changes made to HIPAA last year and after the new regulations were announced, only then some have actually taken the trouble to review the new enforcements.

The new regulations focus on Protected Health Information (PHI), Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), and Unsecured Protected Health Information

(UPHI). The other issues relate to privacy practices, business associate agreements and third party disclosures and other changes relate to encryption of data exchanged through remote portable devices.

It is a matter of concern that HIPAA compliance is not being followed in its totality, there are certain regulations of which many physicians are not even aware of, and for such healthcare providers attending workshops that provide updated information on HIPAA can prove to be beneficial.