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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 ( HIPAA )

• Authority : Office of Civil Rights ( OCR ) Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS )

• Purpose : “ Protect privacy and security of protected health information .”

• https :// www . hhs . gov / hipaa / for-professionals / specialtopics / emergencypreparedness / notification-enforcement-