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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Implications for PDAs

By now, many of us working in health care organizations are familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 or HIPAA. In addition to the sections of HIPAA relating to health insurance reform, HIPAA also impacts privacy and security of patient information. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires consistent privacy while accessing and disclosing patient Protected Health Information (PHI). As health care organizations work feverishly to ensure compliance for electronic data transferred over networks, many organizations may be overlooking security of mobile technologies such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). With the popularity of PDAs in clinical settings and TECHNOLOGY