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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

"Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Public Law 104-91 enacted in 1996, was designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system, protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families, and to protect individual personal health information.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003
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