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The Healthcare Professionals Guide to HIPAA Medical Record Privacy First Edition Copyright 2001 By In enacting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Congress mandated the establishment of standards for the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The Privacy Rule establishes a federal floor of safeguards to protect the confidentiality of medical information. State laws which provide greater privacy protection continue to apply over and above the new federal privacy standards. I have assembled within this e-book (in question and answer format) several key points of the new HIPAA Privacy Rule. |
