Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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An act of the U.S. Congress that stipulates how personally identifiable information is to be protected by the health care and health care insurance industries. It was signed into law in 1996.

MWEAICPA Privacy Management Framework

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per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

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