The HIPAA Security Regulations

Design of RSA-CA Based E-Health System for Supporting HIPAA Privacy-Security Regulations

The privacy and the security regulations are two essential requirements of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), recognized by US congress in 1996 as the US Federal Law followed by global e-health industry, in the protection of healthcare privacy. In this paper, a certificate authority (CA) based duality solution has been proposed to fulfill the HIPAA privacy and security...

A hybrid public key infrastructure solution (HPKI) for HIPAA privacy/security regulations

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has set privacy and security regulations for the US healthcare industry. HIPAA has also established principles for security standards that global e-health industry tends to follow. In this paper, a hybrid public key infrastructure solution (HPKI) is proposed to comply with the HIPAA regulations. The main contribution is the new e-h...

HIPAA regulations - a new era of medical-record privacy?

Although the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regarding the privacy of medical records are new, 1 the concept of using federal law to protect the privacy of medical records is not. The substance of the new regulations can be traced back to work done in the 1970s, especially the report of the Privacy Protection Study Commission, which help...

Applying your corporate compliance skills to the HIPAA security standard.

Compliance programs are an increasingly hot topic among healthcare providers. These programs establish policies and procedures covering billing, referrals, gifts, confidentiality of patient records, and many other areas. The purpose is to help providers prevent and detect violations of the law. These programs are voluntary, but are also simply good business practice. Any compliance program shou...

Protecting Health Information: the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules