Ippa? Is it better for us or not? Hippa stands for the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996. Confidentiality is a big issue under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (Hippa), primarily because of customer protection. The law establishes standards for the retention and confidentiality of personal medical data. The law was enacted on August 21, 1996 by the 104th United States Congress and was signed by Bill Clinton. It was introduced in the House by Bill Archer on March 18, 1996. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 helps promote high-quality health care services and helps confidentially protect patients and other individuals. The two-part HIPAA Title I attempts to protect health insurance coverage for workers and families when they change or lose jobs. Title II, meanwhile, aims to standardize electronic transactions and code sets, implement privacy and security requirements, and establish a federal system that assigns unique identifiers to every health care provider, insurer, and patient. These imperatives would enhance our ability to provide the best care and deserve our sincere efforts. It doesn't matter if you think HIPPA is irrelevant or a godsend, it has touched all of our lives for better and for better. Medical confidentiality has made a huge impact among patients and doctors by ensuring complete privacy of their health. “Guarantees of confidentiality and the interests of patients and healthcare professionals were aligned so that doctors could treat patients in private.” (Chicago Tribune, Cory Franklin). Patients feel open towards doctors, which helps patients to provide them with all the detailed information, which can be very important for doctors to know so that they can treat patients properly. The document... halfway through the document... will be provided only in case of need and only to the referring doctor. HIPAA has had a huge impact. It will take a few more years for all HIPAA regulations to become an integral part of the clinical environment; however, the efforts will pay off for our patients. Work Cited http://www.obgmanagement.com/index.php?id=20667&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=169788 http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/108/8 /915.full#sec-2http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/506841_6http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/108/8/915.fullhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /pmc/articles/PMC1305898http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-01-24/news/1001230205 1 hippa-medical-privacy-medical-redordshttp://www.nursingworld.org/mainmenucategories/ANAmarketplace/ANAperiodicals/OJIN /Index/volume102005/No2may05/tpc27ntr16015.html?css=print