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HIPAA and Medical Records Law in Texas: HIPAA Security Rule

 
No generally accepted set of national rules to protect health information existed before HIPAA. At the time HIPAA passed, the health care industry began moving away from paper records and relying more on electronic information systems to pay claims, answer eligibility questions, provide health information and conduct other administrative and clinically based functions. *This report is a subset of the course manual HIPAA and Medical Records Law in Texas