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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that governs patient privacy and the confidentiality of sensitive medical information. Because HIPAA affects everyone in a medical practice, your boss has asked you to prepare a short document for the staff about HIPAA.
â?¢ Research HIPAA, and create a 1â?"2-page handout for the staff at your work that covers the following:
o What is HIPAA?
o What are 2 major rules of HIPAA that deal with privacy?
o How can HIPAA affect the way a company does business?
o What are some ways to protect patient information so that the practice is HIPAA compliant?

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The health insurance portability and accountability act, is an act that was developed and instated in order to ensure that individuals will continue to be covered by their health insurance provider, in the event that these individuals either lost their jobs, or transitioned to other employment opportunities. This is very important, due to the fact that the loss of insurance by an individual and or his or her family could have potentially devastating results, in the event that a medical emergency arises. This act also helped to ensure that individuals would not lose much-needed coverage, in the event that they sought and obtained better employment opportunities, or the individual had to transition to other employment opportunities for other reasons as well.

The health insurance portability and accountability act also established the ...

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