Chung Kyusuk, Chung Dalsang, Joo YangHee
Governors State University, University Park, IL 60466, USA.
J Med Syst. 2006 Feb;30(1):51-5. doi: 10.1007/s10916-006-7404-1.
The administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 are considered to have a considerable impact on the health care industry in the United States of America. The HIPAA-mandated electronic transactions using Electronic Data Interchange (henceforth EDI) methods have brought significant issues on privacy, confidentiality and security for individually identifiable information not to mention technical issues. The purpose of this paper is to facilitate the understanding of those issues surrounding the administrative simplification part of HIPAA. Toward this goal, the paper provides an overview of HIPAA through a systematic approach of understanding its evolution and its requirements.
1996年《健康保险流通与责任法案》（HIPAA）中的行政简化条款被认为对美利坚合众国的医疗保健行业产生了重大影响。HIPAA要求使用电子数据交换（以下简称EDI）方法进行电子交易，这给个人可识别信息的隐私、保密和安全带来了重大问题，更不用说技术问题了。本文的目的是促进对围绕HIPAA行政简化部分的这些问题的理解。为实现这一目标，本文通过系统地了解HIPAA的演变及其要求，对其进行了概述。
