title: HIPAA's impact on healthcare.
abstract: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is having a profound impact on fraud and abuse detection and prevention, electronic communication standards, and health information security. Moving forward into the new millennium, we can expect acceleration of its ongoing programs, and expansion of its scope to electronic medical record standards.
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authors.lastname: Hellerstein
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D016494:Computer Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D012984:Software; D014481:United States