What is HIPAA?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is legislation which provides security provisions and data privacy, in order to keep patients’ medical information, referred to as protected health information (PHI), safe. The act provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, reduces health care fraud and abuse, mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes, and requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information.
The HIPAA Privacy and Security Frameworks MeasureRISK assessment covers the Security Rule with 6 controls, the Privacy Rule with 13 controls and the Breach Rule with 3 controls.