introduction: health care is considered as one of the basic needs of human societies. health insurance is the most appropriate option for all individuals to enjoy equal health care. however, today, different types of health insurance are facing with various problems which need to be solved through new laws. therefore, health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa) was approved to s...

By October 1, 2013, entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and healthcare providers, will be required to use ICD-10 for HIPAA-covered transactions that contain any diagnoses or hospital inpatient procedures.1 Although it is impossible to quantify the impact at this time because of too many variables...

Perhaps the least controversial aspect of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the set of provisions regulating access to health insurance by small employers (those with 2–50 workers). HIPAA builds on an extensive set of regulations that states began enacting in the early 1990s to make health insurance easier to purchase and to keep. Its requirements include not on...

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To ensure legal compliance, requirements engineers need tools to validate existing requirements for compliance with relevant law. This paper proposes an approach to aid in validating software requirements for legal compliance. The approach employs a production rule model for the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can be queried by requirements enginee...

This paper presents an overview of data encryption methods that may be used to protect data from unauthorized access. Data encryption has come to the forefront as an important method of protecting data due to legislation such as HIPAA as well as privacy concerns expressed by individuals. The authors examine the use of encryption in different situations by interviewing people in positions respon...