Office for the Aging: HIPAA

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HIPAA

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly refered to as The Privacy Act or HIPAA for short, includes provisions to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information and established the conditions under which covered entities might release such information.

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