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Comply with the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that requires the healthcare industry to implement encryption, user authentication and other security measures to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality and availability of electronic data.

For HMOs, PPOs, healthcare providers, lawyers and others in the chain of organizations that exchange electronic medial data, failing to meet these requirements can lead to civil and criminal penalties.

The sweep of the HIPAA security requirements is broad, covering any organization that generates or otherwise handles electronic patient records and other e-medical data. Those affected include virtually all private and government hospitals, outpatient centers, nursing centers, HMOs, PPOs, insurance companies, firms providing clinical information systems for medical labs, providers of pathology, radiology, patient billing, and pharmacy records, medical software application providers and even related web portal companies.