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HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996.
HIPAA does the following:
- Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs;
- Reduces health care fraud and abuse;
- Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes; and
- Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information
Although it mostly concerns Health Insurance and healthcare facilities, it actually covers all patient records wherever they are stored or accessed.
The HIPAA Privacy regulations require health care providers and organizations, as well as their business associates, to develop and follow procedures that ensure the confidentiality and security of protected health information (PHI) when it is transferred, received, handled, or shared. This applies to all forms of PHI, including paper, verbal, electronic, etc. Furthermore, only the minimum health information necessary to conduct business is to be used or shared.
HIPAA regulation identifies two different types of organizations under the law; Covered entities and business associates.
- Covered entities include providers, insurance plans, and health care clearinghouses.
- Business associates include any organization hired to handle sensitive health information, including IT providers, MSPs, faxing services, shredding services, EHR platforms, secure messaging apps, practice management firms, billing, and coding companies, attorneys, and accountants, to name a few.
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Reference: DHCS.GOV
