HIPPA

See also: Hippa and hippa

English

Etymology

Acronym of Health Information Privacy and Portability Act or Health Information Privacy Protection Act.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪpə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpə

Proper noun

HIPPA

  1. Misconstruction of HIPAA (“Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”).
    • 2002 November 14, Gretchen Evans, “HIPPA comes home to roost”, in talk.politics.medicine‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 1 January 2023:
      For those that feel that their health information will be more 'secure' under HIPPA, you may have a disappointment ahead.
    • 2023 December 1, Da Lin, “Privacy advocates accuse Kaiser of not following state law on license plate readers”, in CBS News‎[2], archived from the original on 22 February 2024:
      "There are HIPPA laws that say patient rights and records need to be protected. And so when you go into a Kaiser, license readers, cars are associated with people," said Hill.
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