The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
In 1996 "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act" (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress. The act was
instated primarily to protect health insurance coverage for
workers and their respective families when their is a loss or
change of employment. This is outlined in Details in Title I of
HIPAA Act. As in Title II of the act, the establishment of
national standards for electronic health care transactions and
national identifiers for the providers, employers and health
insurance plans. Along with that is the addressing the
importance on the security and privacy of all health data. These
standards are meant to bog the system down, but rather to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire national
health care system by 'encouraging' the increased standards of
using electronic data interchange in all health care.
There has been in the past, and I'm sure there will continue to
be controversy over the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act, as there is in most other Acts that are passed through
by Congress. Their is great benefits to be had with complete
cooperation, but it does cost time and money to get started. A
little bit now, for alot later is easy for us to say, when we
aren't the ones who are having to shell out the money to pay for
the upgrades that may be required. Or do we end of paying with
rising health care costs?
About the author:
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Ryan Fyfe is the owner and operator of Hipaa Network compliance Software -
http://www.hipaa-network-compliance-software.com, which is the
best site on the internet for all Hipaa related information.
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