TigerConnect provides customers with the tools, services and products to facilitate compliance with HIPAA regulations. WHAT IS HIPAA? HOW DOES TIGERCONNECT FACILITATE HIPAA COMPLIANCE? HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. This law impacts all areas of the healthcare industry and is designed to improve the portability and continuity of health. It calls for greater accountability in the area of health care, simplification of the administration of health insurance, and of administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect confidential health information of patients. More specifically, HIPAA requires healthcare providers to adopt sound practices for protecting the confidentiality integrity and availability of PHI.

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