HIPAA Overview

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into federal law in 1996.  This very extensive and complicated legislation went into effect over a period of 10 years, with one of the last provisions only taking effect in 2007. 

The Act covers privacy of individual health care data in paper or electronic form.  The Act also defines what data constitutes private data, and in general regulates the business and administration of healthcare.  To download an overview of HIPAA and other major regulatory standards that apply to IT infrastructure, please click here.

If your company handles health information in electronic form, your managed services provider (MSP) should be certified for HIPAA by an outside auditor.  Ixilix is certified for HIPAA and will provide an outside auditor's report upon request.

 

 

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