title: The new privacy officer.
abstract: It has been a decade since the first privacy officers took their jobs in response to the HIPAA privacy rule. A slew of changes since then have added more responsibility, required more skills, and demanded more time of them than anyone could have imagined.
authors.affiliation: AHIMA, USA. chris.dimick@ahima.org
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dimick
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D024382:Professional Role; D014481:United States