HIPAA: Health Privacy Law That’s More Limited Than You Think

• July 29, 2021
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal legislation that mandated the development of national guidelines to prevent sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the permission or knowledge of the patient. They have also been able to establish several new standards aimed at increasing efficiency in the healthcare business, mandating healthcare companies to implement the standards in order to decrease paperwork. This makes it a lot easier for not just healthcare uses but the people that work on the back end of it.

​HIPAA includes a safety and privacy rule. The safety rule includes ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and reliability of all electronic data; identify and defend against any attacks to the information’s security; and guard against potential improper uses or disclosures. The Privacy Rule’s requirements regulate how enterprises subject to the Privacy Rule use and disclose people’ health information

The goal of HIPAA to increase healthcare sector efficiency, promote healthcare insurance portability, safeguard patients’ and medical insurance members’ safety, and guarantee that health information is maintained private and that patients be notified of breaches of their health data.

– Inaz Budhwani