This study examines physicians' attitudes toward key Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule requirements and assesses the effects of ...

HIPAA's administrative simplification provisions directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create privacy standards and safeguards for the use of such electronic health care ...

Initially, the findings we have presented appear to be contradictory. On the one hand, most physicians believe that the Privacy Rule as a whole and a few of its key ...

As of December 23, health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses (covered entities) and their business associates (collectively, regulated entities) must comply with new ...

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the protection of private health information for ...

The compliance deadline for changes to the privacy of reproductive health information is fast approaching, with the new rules taking effect ...

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress into law in the year 1996. It is legislation that ...