What specific area of ethics does HIPAA address?
a. Privacy
b. Justice
c. Coercion to participate in a research study
d. Informed consent
ANS: A
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was implemented in 2003 to protect an individual's health information. The U.S. DHHS developed regulations titled the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, and compliance with these regulations is known as the Privacy Rule.
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