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Glossary of HIPAA Terms
Term Definition
Able to get to and use data or authorized system
Access
resources
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid The agency of the federal government responsible for
overseeing and enforcing the HIPAA Administration
Services Simplification rules (except privacy - that's mostly OCR)
Health Insurance Portability and The law (and in common use, as "HIPAA" all the
regulations as well), that defines the standards,
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) including for protecting the use and disclosure of PHI
Term Definition