Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-001930",
  "term": "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. A federal statute that called on the federal Department of Health and Human Services to establish regulatory standards to protect the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information.\n\n2. the primary law in the United States that governs the privacy of healthcare information",
  "abbreviation": "HIPAA",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-188",
    "NISTIR 8053",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act/"
}