HIPAA Security Provisions Summary

HIPAA Security Provisions Summary consist of:

- Standards to enable electronic exchange transactions
- Creation of unique identifiers for individuals, employers, health plans, and health providers
- Sets of codes identifying specific medical services that can be used to simplify billing
- Security standards for the management of health information that describe how healthcare information and IT systems involved with that information are to be protected
- Use of digital signatures
- Ability to transfer information between health plans (to ensure continuity of coverage)