What is HIPAA?
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996. Under this Act the Department of Health and Human Services has developed the Privacy Rule that gives research subjects the right to know how their identifiable health information is used and disclosed, and assures them this information will be protected.
HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996. HIPAA does the following: • Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs; • Reduces health care fraud and abuse; • Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes; and • Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information HIPAA is organized into separate “Titles.” For information on the HIPAA Titles, please go to the HIPAA Title Information Page.
HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA is the federal law that establishes standards for the privacy and security of health information, as well as standards for electronic data interchange of health information. HIPAA’s Goals Include: Making health insurance more portable when persons change employers, and making the health care system more accountable for costs — trying especially to reduce waste and fraud. HIPAA aims to improve accountability in part through what it calls administrative simplification — a term that translates, roughly, as “promoting efficiency.” The principal means of promoting efficiency is better use of information technology. Health care is — or, at least at the time of the legislation, was — still very “uncomputerized” compared to other parts of the economy, particularly in its use of paper for personal health records. Broader use of computer systems increased concerns about misuse of patient’s health i
