What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The [[United States]]' '''Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act''' for 1996 (or '''HIPAA''' in short; pronounced ''HIP-uh'') is an [[Act of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for 1996|publisher=Armstrong Library|url=http://www.library.armstrong.edu/eres/docs/eres/MHSA8635-1_CROSBY/8635_week2_HIPAA_politics.pdf|access-date=January 1, 2024|archive-date=January 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116195505/http://www.library.armstrong.edu/eres/docs/eres/MHSA8635-1_CROSBY/8635_week2_HIPAA_politics.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> This bill was signed into law by the then-[[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on August 21, 1996. Its mission was changing or altering the transfer of [[health care]] information.<ref>{{cite web|title=The HIPAA|publisher=National Library of Medicine|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK500019|access-date=January 1, 2024}}</ref> It sought to also protect healthcare industries from [[fraud]] and theft. The bill does not restrict or stop patients from getting information on themselves, although with limited exceptions.The patients can voluntarily share health information however they want and choose. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:United States federal legislation]] {{multistub|us|med}}