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--Herbert Jeffrey Mattord 16:16, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

Revision as of 15:16, 23 April 2007

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]


Notes and references

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