What does H I P P A stand for?

Answer 1

Did you mean HIPAA?

HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which was passed almost recently in 1996. It's basically an act to protect the patient and his or her information from being easily passed around or given to others by all healthcare professionals. For instance, pharmacists cannot give information that can easily identify a patient say if someone says that they are a friend of a person and they want to know what medicine they are taken. That is illegal and cannot be given. Under certain circumstances is patient information allowed to be disclosed: health activities, victims of abuse, law enforcement purposes, to comply with workers compensation, and to report adverse events or other drug- or device-related problems to the FDA.