HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a United States federal statute signed into legislation as a broad piece of health and privacy legislation that helped replace and regulate how medical insurance was offered and how personal medical information was saved as digital processing became commonplace.

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Additional information can be found through the following reference(s):

• https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/hipaa.html