Getting Hip to HIPAA
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Excerpt from RecyclingToday.com - 5/20/2003
At the federal level, information destruction requirements in the health care field are part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Although the centerpiece of the act focused on medical records standardization, parts of the legislation also address maintaining the privacy and security of medical records.
Insurance companies, hospitals and physician practices are obligated to protect individually identifiable health information, which has been interpreted to mean any records that include a patient's name, address or Social Security number. This privacy protection portion of HIPAA took effect April 14 of this year [2003], according to Meyer.
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