Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
What Is HIPAA?
In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to address multiple health care issues including administrative simplification. The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. It also addresses the security and privacy of health data. Adopting these standards will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's health care system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data interchange in health care.
The administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA include requirements in three key areas: (1) privacy; (2) security; and (3) electronic transactions.
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