Institutionalizing HIPAA Compliance Organizations and Competing Logics in U.S. Health Care
Topics: Customer Governance
Ajit Appari, Denise L. Anthony Ph.D , M. Eric Johnson
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, March 2014
Health care in the United States is highly regulated, yet compliance with regulations is variable. For example, compliance with two rules for securing electronic health information in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act took longer than expected and was highly uneven across U.S. hospitals. We analyzed 3,321 medium and large hospitals using data from the 2003 Health Information and Management Systems Society Analytics Database. We find that organizational strategies and institutional environments influence hospital compliance, and further that institutional logics moderate the effect of some strategies, indicating the interplay of regulation, institutions, and organizations that contribute to the extensive variation that characterizes the U.S. health care system.
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