A HIPAA Typo

As the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) got in full swing a few years ago, I received several press releases from software vendors or consultants who touted that they were there to help health care organizations with their HIPPA work.

Did you catch that? The letters typed were HIPPA. What does that stand for? Health Insurance Portability and P-Accountability Act? Health Insurance Portability and Portability Act? For those vendors who sent those press releases to me, they ended up in my e-mail trash bin or the circular file under my desk.

I read this interesting story in the Albany Times-Union the other day about a wordsmith Jeff Deck who is making a cross-continent tour to rid the misspellings on billboards, signs and elsewhere in public view.

Here's a sign that Mr. Deck might want to correct. It's posted as an image in Flickr.

Did you spot the typographical error?

Have you seen any other typos or misspellings in your work in health care?