FAQs
What is HIPAA?
It is the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act . This is a series of rules focused on protecting the treatment and disclosure of protected health information (commonly called PHI, Protected Health Information), regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Human Rights Office. (OCR), and requires organizations that process protected medical information to take a series of security measures when processing this type of data.
What companies are required to comply with HIPAA?
All organizations that process protected health information (PHI).
What does HIPAA protect?
HIPAA aims to ensure the portability of health insurance, prevent fraud in the field of health, protect the privacy and confidentiality of data related to people’s health, and facilitate the management of information in the field of health.