The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was enacted in the United States in 1996. The legislation creates data security and privacy requirements for safeguarding medical information. In recent years, HIPAA compliance has become a hot button issue for software developers...
with information flowing across numerous interrelated and interdependent institutions, service providers and individuals: Physicians inside the hospital and at their practices, outsourced diagnostic services, pharmacies, labs, billing services, business associates, visiting nurses and other home/mobile healthcare...