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Basically...
What is HIPAA?
The Health Insurance
Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 i.e.; Public Law 104-191
which amends the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986.
Title II includes a section,
Administrative Simplification, requiring:
1. Improved efficiency in
healthcare delivery by standardizing electronic data interchange, and
2. Protection of
confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing
standards.
What does HIPAA call for?
1. Standardization of
electronic patient health, administrative and financial data.
2. Unique health identifiers
for individuals, employers, health plans and health care providers.
3. Security standards
protecting the confidentiality and integrity of "individually
identifiable health information, " past, present or future.
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