Over the years since the inception of HIPAA, it is hard not to notice the influence it brought on to the patients, the healthcare industry, the health information management and technology, and other entities in securing the confidentiality, security, and privacy of PHI. In addition, the HITECH Act and its HIPAA modification released in January 2013 greatly invigorated the HIPAA of 1996 (Solove, 2013). Definitely, the most important health care changes over the past couple of decades is the growing interest in health information privacy and security (Solove, 2013).
Over the years since the inception of HIPAA, it is hard not to notice the influence it brought on to the patients, the healthcare industry, the health information management and technology, and other entities in securing the confidentiality, security, and privacy of PHI. In addition, the HITECH Act and its HIPAA modification released in January 2013 greatly invigorated the HIPAA of 1996 (Solove, 2013). Definitely, the most important health care changes over the past couple of decades is the growing interest in health information privacy and security (Solove, 2013).