HIPAA, also known as Public Law 104-191, has two main purposes: to provide continuous health insurance coverage for workers who lose or change their job and to ultimately reduce the cost of healthcare by standardizing the electronic transmission of administrative and financial transactions. Other go...
One of the most commonly asked questions we get is “What is HIPAA compliance?” so it’s important to define compliance. HIPAA Compliance Definition The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly known as HIPAA, is a series of regulatory standards that outline the lawf...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA) is a regulation designed to protect patients’ healthcare information within the US. Certain organizations that have access to protected health information (PHI) are required to implement the security controls, processes, and procedures ...
HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a law passed in 1996 that imposes stringent privacy and security mandates on health care providers—and most of their IT vendors.
What is HIPAA? The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law that regulates how health information is handled and secured. HIPAA helps ensure the protection of health information by requiring security controls for electronic health information and mandating priv...
Passed in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established to improve the healthcare system’s storage and use of patient data. As health insurance and healthcare services modernize and digitalize, more health information is stored, transferred, and updated digital...
HIPAA laws were enacted primarily to: Modernise the flow of healthcare information. Stipulate howpersonally identifiable information(PII) maintained by the healthcare and health insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft. Address limitations on healthcare insurance coverage, such as co...
Learn about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the requirements for HIPAA compliance in Data Protection 101, our series on the fundamentals of information security.
What Does Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Mean? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a U.S. law comprised of standards designed to protect patient health information, or protected health information (PHI), which refer to patient health information, ...
The article deals with policies and procedures of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Health law attorney Adam Plotkin suggests that collection agencies should have HIPAA policies with them if they intend to do business with health care providers. He notes that ...