HIPAA is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is the standard adhered to for maintaining patient privacy. Implementing the security requirements advised by HIPAA makes security breaches impossible. Hence, well-known transcription service providers make their services HIPAA compliant. Anyone who is processing or handling PHI (Protected Health Information) including ePHI (electronic PHI) has to follow the security rules set by the HIPAA mandate. The security rule outlines 3 standards to protect health information.

• Physical safeguards for PHI.
• Technical safeguards for PHI.
• Administrative safeguards for PHI.

HIPAA is essentially the security standard for the protection of electronically protected health information.