The real HIPAA enforcement agency is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Complaints are filed with the OCR, and they are responsible for administering, investigating and enforcing the HIPAA privacy standards.
1 The population of the United States is estimated at 322,583,006 as of July 1 2014. 2  United States' population is equivalent to 4.45% of the total world population. 3  The U.S. ranks number 3 in the list of countries by population. 4  The population density in the U.S.A. is 34 people per Km2.
U.S. population at the beginning of 2017 was over 324 million. 1 U.S. population is growing by over 2,000,000 people per year -- that's 240 per hour -- about half from new births and half from immigration. 1 According to a Global Footprint Network data, the U.S. can sustain a population of only about 150 million at a reduced consumption level similar to Europeans. 2