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.
The U.S. is growing, and the world is growing faster. The U.S. entered 2016 with an estimated population of 322,762,018 according to an end-of-year estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning that we added more than 2.4 million people to the population over the course of the year.