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HIPAA

The US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, whose framework includes rules for specified health information, administrative transactions and covered entities.

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Also known as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

What it means

A specific legal framework

HIPAA is US legislation, not a worldwide label for every medical data rule. Its privacy and security requirements have defined scopes. Whether an organization or relationship is covered depends on the relevant facts and applicable rules.

Payment design and health information

Healthcare payment systems should distinguish billing information, clinical records and information transmitted to external services. Putting sensitive health details into public blockchain data can create exposure that a payment label does not solve. A service claiming to accept crypto does not thereby establish HIPAA compliance.

Related concepts

PCI DSS, Key management, Invoice.

In practice

A concrete example

A practice separates a payment reference from clinical notes and reviews which information, if any, is sent to each payment service.

Technical notes & boundaries

This is an introductory definition, not a compliance assessment. Determine covered-entity and business-associate responsibilities using current official guidance and qualified advice.

Go to the source.

Original references used for this definition. Product details and standards can change.

  1. 01CMS: HIPAA and administrative simplificationhttps://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduction/administrative-simplification/hipaa
  2. 02CMS: HIPAA privacy and securityhttps://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduction/administrative-simplification/hipaa/privacy-security-information