News Brief: Software vendors say they’ll be ready for HIPAA
News Brief: Software vendors say they’ll be ready for HIPAA
Most of the leading health care information technology (IT) software companies expect their products to be Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant by the October 2002 deadline.
That’s the conclusion of a study by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) that surveyed 28 leading health IT companies on the compatibility of their products with HIPAA’s Transaction and Code Sets rule.
Data on 25 software products was collected, representing 4,700 installations in industry segments such as hospitals, ambulatory care, professional practice settings, payer organizations, and subacute care facility markets.
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