You will prepare and submit a term paper on HIPPA. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on HIPPA. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length. All the same, state laws that provide greater confidentiality to the medical information of patients are not preempted by the Federal Privacy Rule. Moreover, this rule does not affect compensation statutes related to state workers. This has rendered the situation complicated, inasmuch as health care providers and health insurers have to examine, not only their state laws, but also the requirements of the Federal Privacy Rule (Kutzko, Boyer and Thoman 405). Since its inception as a proposed rule in the year 1999, the Federal Privacy Rule has been subjected to several significant changes, which has further complicated the situation. That system had been based on the electronic record, and the HIPAA called for the implementation of unique health identifiers for individuals, health care providers, employers and health plans.In addition, this Act required the establishment of standard code sets and transactions, with regard to the transmission of health information, via electronic methods (Kutzko, Boyer and Thoman 407). Moreover, it also called for the putting into practice of privacy and security norms in the context of health information that could be individually identified.