 HIPAA
The privacy provisions of the
federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA), apply to health information created or maintained by health care
providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, health plans, and
health care clearinghouses.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
has issued the regulation, "Standards for Privacy of Individually
Identifiable Health Information," applicable to entities covered by HIPAA.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the Departmental component responsible
for implementing and enforcing the privacy regulation. (See the Statement of
Delegation of Authority to the Office for Civil Rights, as published in the
Federal Register on December 28, 2000 - [HTML][Text
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