Protect Your Practice From HIPPA Investigations
Posted June 20, 2016 by Stacy BolzeniusThe Health Information Portability and Protection Act (HIPAA) was created in 1996 to safeguard patients’ medical information. Since then it has been divided into three sections — the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the HIPAA Security Rule, and the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Each provides federal standards for how medical data is protected and distributed, as well as how patients are notified of a potential health information breach.