The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law in 1996 with the purpose of standardizing healthcare transactions and protecting individual health information. HIPAA aims to improve efficiency by standardizing financial and administrative data exchange between healthcare organizations. It also develops standards to secure private patient data and gives patients control over how their information is used. HIPAA contains five titles related to health insurance coverage, preventing healthcare fraud, tax provisions, group health plans, and offsetting the cost of the act.

2. The health insurance portability and
accountability act (HIPAA) became law in
1996. The purpose of the HIPAA is to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
healthcare transactions by standardizing
the exchange of administrative and
financial data, as well as protecting the
privacy and security of individual health
information that is maintained or
transmitted.

3.  Standardizing the format and content of
primary commercial and administrative
electronic healthcare transactions.
 Developing standards to protect confidential
patient information from improper use or
disclosure and establishing patients rights to
control such uses.
 Developing standards for computer systems
and networks to ensure the security, integrity,
and availability of patient data.

4.  Title 1. health access, portability, and
renewability.
 Title 2. preventing health care fraud and abuse
(administrative simplification0, which includes:
 (1) transaction and code sets (2) identifiers (3)
privacy (4) security.
 Title 3. Tax-related health previsions (medical
savings accounts and health insurance tax
deductions for self-employed individuals).

5. Title 4. Group health plan provisions
Title 5. Revenue offset provisions.