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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