Net income is what remains after subtracting all the costs (namely, business, depreciation, interest, and taxes) from a companyâs revenues. It is sometimes called the bottom line.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that was passed in 1996, designed primarily to modernize the flow of health information. At the time, most medical records were in paper form, but it was becoming clear that health data would become digital in the future.
HIPAA has a long and complicated history (the legislation was signed into law in 1996 but was continually tinkered with for the next decade) that started when hospitals started switching from paper to digital records.