HIPPA and its importance to healthcare and patients, health and medicine homework help

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Assignment: Research HIPAA and write a 3 paragraph essay on what it is and its importance to healthcare and patients.


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HIPAA
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HIPAA

HIPAA is the abbreviation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It
was passed in 1996 and its mandate is to maintain data security and privacy in relation to
healthcare data (Beaver & Herold, 2014). HIPPA has five main provisions with the first dealing
in the protection of health insurance coverage, the establishment of national standards for
safeguarding electronic healthcare transactions (Beaver & Herold, 2014). Guidelines for taxrelated provisions, provisions for persons with pre-existing conditions and address companyowned life insurance and treatment. HIPAA has popularly been known for its TITLE II
provisions that identify requ...


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