HIPAA health care institutions

HIPAA Security Requirements: What They Really Mean

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center was having a hard time protecting patient electronic health information. In 2012, an employee’s laptop, containing ePHI for about 30,000 patients was stolen. The ...
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The Impact of HIPAA

The Impact of HIPAA

In 1996 the US congress passed a new regulation for the healthcare industry: The Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), designed to protect the privacy and security of sensitive health ...