Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

HIPAA

NIST SP 800-117, NIST SP 800-150

Definitions:

A federal statute that called on the federal Department of Health and Human Services to establish regulatory standards to protect the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-188 under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

the primary law in the United States that governs the privacy of healthcare information
Sources:
NISTIR 8053 under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

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