| In 1996 "The Health Insurance Portability and | | | | health care.There has been in the past, and I'm sure |
| Accountability Act" (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. | | | | there will continue to be controversy over the The |
| Congress. The act was instated primarily to protect | | | | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as |
| health insurance coverage for workers and their | | | | there is in most other Acts that are passed through by |
| respective families when their is a loss or change of | | | | Congress. Their is great benefits to be had with |
| employment. This is outlined in Details in Title I of | | | | complete cooperation, but it does cost time and |
| HIPAA Act. As in Title II of the act, the establishment | | | | money to get started. A little bit now, for alot later is |
| of national standards for electronic health care | | | | easy for us to say, when we aren't the ones who are |
| transactions and national identifiers for the providers, | | | | having to shell out the money to pay for the upgrades |
| employers and health insurance plans. Along with that | | | | that may be required. Or do we end of paying with |
| is the addressing the importance on the security and | | | | rising health care costs?Feel free to reprint this article |
| privacy of all health data. These standards are meant | | | | as long as you keep the article, this caption and author |
| to bog the system down, but rather to improve the | | | | biography in tact with all hyperlinks.Ryan Fyfe is the |
| efficiency and effectiveness of the entire national | | | | owner and operator of Hipaa Network compliance |
| health care system by 'encouraging' the increased | | | | Software - which is the best site on the internet for all |
| standards of using electronic data interchange in all | | | | Hipaa related information. |