HIPAA
Abbreviation Medical Law and Ethics
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which sets federal privacy and security rules for health information.
Sources
- Fundamentals of Nursing, Chapter 9 Key Terms · OpenStax
Free practice questions that use HIPAA
- Administrative Assisting, question 5Under MACRA (2015), the Medicare EHR "meaningful use" requirements for physicians became part of which program?
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- PHIProtected health information: individually identifiable health information that HIPAA protects.
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