HIPAA Research Paper

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Living in today’s society health information is easily a click or an email away, which makes it very important that this information remains secure and private. In this paper I’ll be discussing Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HIPAA is a law that conveniently allows people to maintain active insurance, while keeping their identifiable health information protected and secured, and it also helps keep administrative cost low as well. The Office for Civil Rights is responsible for regulating privacy and security of HIPAA. OCRs receives the complaints and reviews it to see what actions need to be take and if any guidelines or laws have been broken. If there is a violation it is then sent to Department of Justice