Whois & Analysis for healthitsecurity.com

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.

It has been known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act or Kassebaum–Kennedy Act after two of its leading sponsors.

This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of an individual's medical record or payment history.

Covered entities must disclose PHI to the individual within 30 days upon request.

They also must disclose PHI when required to do so by law such as reporting suspected child abuse to state child welfare agencies.

A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment.

Other terms for this phenomenon include unintentional information disclosure, data leak and also data spill.

Incidents range from concerted attack by black hats associated with organized crime, political activist or national governments to careless disposal of used computer equipment or data storage media.

Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information.

It is a general term that can be used regardless of the form the data may take (e.g. electronic, physical).

Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of computer systems from the theft or damage to the hardware, software or the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

network security means protecting data, such as a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users.