Acronym that stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a compliance based federal law which was framed in 1996 by US Congress to protect the electronic health information of patients.
HIPAA was initially drafted to help Healthcare administrators for maintaining Healthcare Information System. As Healthcare data contains key and sensitive patient demographic data like Social Security Number (SSN), names, addresses, claims information and more importantly sensitive health data, it became all the more important compliance act for protecting patients’ health records.
Moreover, it brings transparency in Healthcare diagnosis when physicians are in need of candid information from patients.
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