The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of health information needed for patient care and other important purposes.

The Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities and their business associates to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.

For a summary of the HIPAA laws click here

If you would like to understand the HIPAA laws better go to:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html

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