Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act.

It is a law in the United States that attempts to protect the security (confidentiality) and privacy of health-case data by establishing and enforcing standards for the many organizations that handle data of that type. [1]


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  1. Whitman, M. & Mattord, H. (2005), Principles of Information Security, Second Edition, Thomson Course Technology, Boston MA