Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Preferred Label : Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act;

NCIt synonyms : United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; PL 104-191; Public Law 104-191; HIPAA;

NCIt related terms : Kassebaum Kennedy Act;

NCIt definition : United States legislation enacted in 1996 that aims to provide health data privacy and security.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A 1996 U.S. law that allows workers and their families to keep their health insurance when they change or lose their jobs. The law also includes standards for setting up secure electronic health records and to protect the privacy of a person's health information and to keep it from being misused.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000635457; CDR0000635461; CDR0000635460;

Details

Origin ID

C62504;

UMLS CUI

C0600593;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- health insurance [MedlinePlus Topic]
- personal health records [MedlinePlus Topic]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- health insurance portability and accountability act [MeSH Descriptor]
- health insurance portability and accountability act [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Regulation or Law [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- health insurance portability and accountability act [MeSH concept]
- health insurance portability and accountability act [MeSH Descriptor]

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