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HIPAA-compliant filing cabinet. (Product Marketplace).


All healthcare organizations-including physicians' offices, dentists' offices, insurance providers, and health plans-must comply with new HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health,  (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when
) requirements for safeguarding patient records by April 2003. Times-2 Speed Files[R] can help meet those requirements. They provide versatile, dual-sided filing in a locking cabinet that rotates. Active files can be securely locked; simply rotate the unit to the closed position and lock with the key.

One Times-2 can provide almost as much storage as three lateral lateral /lat·er·al/ (-il)
1. denoting a position farther from the median plane or midline of the body or a structure.

2. pertaining to a side.


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 filing cabinets. Multiple units can be used as room dividers and be accessed by workstations on either side. The units can also be positioned in an alcove or against a wall to maximize office space.

Times-2 Speed Files offer versatile record storage with the ability to easily convert from one filing style to another. Switching to electronic document imaging? No problem. Times-2 accommodates a variety of accessories and drawers for storing binders, CD-ROMs, Zip disks A 3.5" removable disk drive from Iomega. Zip disks come in 100MB, 250MB and 750MB varieties, with the latter introduced in 2002 using USB and FireWire interfaces. The 250MB drives, introduced in 1998, also read and write 100MB disks. , floppies, and tapes. Pharmaceutical samples can be doubly protected with individually locking security drawers. Choose from six different unit heights and a standard palette (1) In computer graphics, a range of colors used for display and printing. See color palette.

(2) A collection of on-screen painting tools.

(3) A toolbar that contains a set of functions for any kind of application.

palette - colour palette
 of 22 colors in our durable Gloss-Tek[TM] powder-coat finish

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Title Annotation:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Comment:HIPAA-compliant filing cabinet. (Product Marketplace).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)(Brief Article)
Publication:Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2002
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