College of Medicine

Some HIPAA Humor

HIPAA Theme Song

HIPAA-dee-doo-dah, HIPAA-dee-day,
My, oh, my, what a stressful day.
Plenty of incidents coming my way,
HIPAA-dee-doo-dah, HIPAA-dee-day.

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
HIPAA.
HIPAA who?
Sorry, I’m not at liberty to disclose that information.

Really Awful HIPAA Puns

What's the effect of most HIPAA presentations?
HIPAA-nosis

What do you call someone who preaches privacy, but doesn't follow through?
HIPAA-critical

What do you call a provider if he/she is found to have violated patient confidentiality?
HIPAA-cratic HIPAA-crit

What do you call a theory for HIPAA success?
HIPAA-thesis

What do you call the complete understanding of all HIPAA rules?
HIPAA-thetical situation

If you've heard about HIPAA compliance until you're blue, you might be:
HIPAA-thermic

What do you call someone who complains incessantly about HIPAA?
HIPAA-chondriac

What do you say when you fail your HIPAA training for the fifth time?
I'm in a HIPAA trouble.

If, after all this time, you still think HIPAA is sweet, you may be:
HIPAA-glycemic

What is the disease you get from too much HIPAA?
HIPAA-titis

If you're sure you know all the HIPAA rules, you're probably:
HIPAA-go-lucky

Who was the first Privacy Officer in the Old West?
HIPAA-long Cassidy

What do you call someone who is afraid of HIPAA?
HIPAA-phobic

What do you call a boring person who talks in circles about HIPAA?
HIPAA-drone

What do you call government personnel who wrote all those HIPAA rules?
HIPAA-critical HIPAA-crats

What do you call the long uphill learning curve for HIPAA compliance?
The HIPAA-tenuse

What do you call a "shot" of HIPAA humor?
A HIPAA-dermic

What HIPAA really stands for:

Health Industry Paying All Attorneys
Highly Intricate Paperwork in Abundant Amounts
Healthy Income Protection for Attorneys Act
Having Impact Past All Assumptions
Huge Increase in Paperwork and Aggravation Act

Important Announcement:

The HIPAA act will soon be combined with the newly formed: Physicians Organized To Manage Uncontrolled Spending (POTMUS): to be known as HIPAA-POTMUS and is expected to be HUGE.

(Mostly from the HIPAAdvisory web-site, www.hipaadvisory.com of Phoenix Health Systems, Inc. and some from other unidentified sources.)