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Compliance: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

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Overview HIPAA requires healthcare organizations and businesses that manage patient health information to protect the confidentiality and security of all health data managed by that organization. HIPAA compliance requirements, coupled with advances in electronic exchange of information, put significant additional technical and administrative burdens on the healthcare organizations of all sizes.

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Publisher	Biscom	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Electronic Data Interchange, HIPAA

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