Hippel was created to regulate how health care data is secured to protect health information and the
health care organization that handles medical information should be Hippel compliant.
The first thing you should know about HYPP is the privacy rule.
If you go to H.H. ask dot gov forward slash Hippel you can review the documentation from the main page
you can find that privacy rule.
The purpose of the hip privacy rule is to address the use and disclosure of individual's health information.
A major goal of the privacy rule is to assure that individual's health information is properly protected
while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care
and to protect the public's health and well-being.
The next tip a rule you should understand is the security rule the security rule establishes a national
set of security standards for protecting certain health information that is hold or transferred in electronic
form.
The last hyp a fundamental You should know are the safeguards that are used to check if an organization
is compliant hiper safeguards are broken up into three categories administrative physical and technical.
Both of these links are available as resources in this lecture.
So if you would like to review some more of the hip documentation you can access it from there.