By David Saunders ( February 26, 2018, 11:04 AM EST) -- We are a year into a new presidential administration, and yet it seems we are asking the same question that we were at this juncture last year: What will Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enforcement look like under the new administration? There have been several factors that cause us, a year later, to be asking the same question; whether it is the change of U.S. Department of Health & Human Services secretaries or the never-before-seen catastrophic natural disasters that occurred in Texas and Puerto Rico in 2017. Still another reason could be something much more plain: Perhaps we are waiting for something that will never come. Perhaps what we have seen in the last 12 months in HIPAA enforcement represents the new normal. One way to evaluate that hypothesis is the annual rite of budgeting and setting of legislative priorities....
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