Health Insurance Portibility

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was drafted to address a number of issues that were of concern before the act was approved.

The health insurance portability act was designed to establish guidelines for the standards of electronic health care transactions throughout the industry and the various health care providers and employers involved with that data.

One of the issues that were of most concern was the privacy factor that was involved with having individual health data easily accessible by others.

The health insurance portability act seeks to improve the security and the privacy of this health data and as all the individuals of the health sector adopt the standards that are set forth in this act the health care system of the nation as a whole will improve along with the use and the exchange of any electronic health care data.

The Department of Health and Human Services helped to establish the health insurance portability requirements that are in force to this day.