One person in Washington who is intimately familiar with HIPAA and how the law works is Congresswoman Donna Shalala, a Florida Democrat who helped write the law as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton.

Which president enacted HIPAA?

August 1996 – HIPAA Signed into Law by President Bill Clinton. April 2003 – Effective Date of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

What did Donna Shalala do?

Shalala served as HHS secretary for eight years during the Clinton administration, becoming the nation's longest-serving HHS secretary. She is the first Lebanese-American to serve in a Cabinet position. ... She was president of the Clinton Foundation from 2015 to 2017.