The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) adds privacy and security requirements for health information that will be difficult for healthcare enterprises to meet without a centralized data archive solution.
An overwhelming concern in healthcare, HIPAA promises to significantly impact the IT and healthcare industries by requiring a new, more stringent focus on privacy and security of healthcare information. To examine various requirements and implications of final and proposed HIPAA regulations, please view HIPAA in Plain English, created by Kris K.Hughes, Esq.
