Incompetence reigns

wtf? The Washington Post reports:

Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are furious over a recent decision by the Pentagon to block their access to medical information needed to treat severely injured troops arriving at VA hospitals from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here we are, four years into a war, and the Pentagon finally gets the idea it has to comply with HIPPA but doesn't know how? I mean, give me a break! The incompetence is simply mind-boggling.