What is HIPAA ?
On August 21, 1996, HIPAA was created as an amendment to the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986. HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act, and is also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act. The purpose of HIPAA is to standardize electronic patient health administrative and financial data, ensure unique health identifiers for individuals, employers, health plans and health care providers, and to guarantee security standards that protect the confidentiality and integrity of individually identifiable health information, past, present or future. |