The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation via case law.

Validating Existing Requirements for Compliance with Law Using a Production Rule Model

To ensure legal compliance, requirements engineers need tools to validate existing requirements for compliance with relevant law. This paper proposes an approach to aid in validating software requirements for legal compliance. The approach employs a production rule model for the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can be queried by requirements enginee...

A different kind of 'new federalism'? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has been praised and criticized for asserting federal authority to regulate health insurance. We review the history of federalism and insurance regulation and find that HIPAA is less of a departure from traditional federal authority than it is an application of existing tools to meet evolving health policy goals. This inter...

Hospital chaplaincy under the HIPAA Privacy Rule: health care or "just visiting the sick"?

Health care fraud and abuse: new weapons, new penalties, and new fears for providers created by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA").

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 may well be the most significant increase ever in the federal government's health care fraud and abuse enforcement authority. This new authority coupled with increased scrutiny of the health care industry generally creates a compelling incentive for health care facilities to develop corporate compliance programs.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) Compliant Access Control Model for Web Services

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a set of rules to be followed by health plans, doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in the U.S. HIPAA privacy rules create national standards to protect individuals’ health information. Recently, there have been increasing demands and discussions about Web services-based healthcare applications. It is, therefor...