What is HIPAA?
In technical terms:
In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act or the HIPAA was endorsed by the U.S. Congress. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, also called the Standards for Privacy of Individually
Identifiable Health Information, provided the first nationally-recognizable
regulations for the use/disclosure of an individual's health information.
Essentially, the Privacy Rule defines how covered entities use
individually-identifiable health information or the PHI (Personal Health
Information). 'Covered entities' is a term often used in HIPAA-compliant
guidelines.
About HIPAA
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