Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 [close]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was the result of efforts by government proponents to reform healthcare. The goals and objectives of this legislation are to streamline industry inefficiencies, reduce paperwork, make it easier to detect and prosecute fraud and abuse and enable workers of all professions to change jobs, even if they (or family members) had pre-existing medical conditions.

The HIPAA legislation has four primary objectives:
  1. Assure health insurance portability by eliminating job-lock due to pre-existing medical conditions
  2. Reduce healthcare fraud and abuse
  3. Enforce standards for health information
  4. Guarantee security and privacy of health information
Now that we are past some deadlines, there is continued confusion as to what HIPAA compliance is all about. Much of this confusion is due to the fact that there are still fundamental issues that need to be defined by the authorities. Our group of experts in System Engineering is committed to the individualized technological recommendations needed to keep your office current on Information Security and HIPAA Compliance needs.

LEARN HOW YOUR OFFICE CAN BENEFIT
FROM BEING HIPAA COMPLIANT:

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