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HHS - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (federal agency which oversees the U.S. healthcare system - responsible for HIPAA/HITECH compliance through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which took over compliance enforcement duties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in July 2009)
HIAA - Health Insurance Association of America (organization that seeks to educate the public on the benefits of private health insurance coverage)
HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (organization of systems managers serving the healthcare field)
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (federal legislation requiring physicians and other healthcare providers who conduct electronic transactions to adopt certain security measures to safeguard protected health information (PHI) in electronic form)
HITECH Act - Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (federal legislation, enacted as Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, which strengthened the enforcement powers of HIPAA data protection rules and added a breach notification requirement)
HL7 - Health Level Seven (standards-setting organization that has created message format standards to address interoperability of information systems within and across health care organizations)
HOLUA - Home Office Life Underwriters Association (organization of home office underwriters of life insurance companies)
HR - human resources (generally, any part of an organization's operations which involves people or a company's employees;
company department which manages personnel, advises management on employment matters, conducts searches for job candidates to fill positions, participates in hiring and firing decisions, helps with long-term planning involving employment needs, training, and development)
HRA - human resource accounting (method of accounting which attempts to quantify the value of the human factor and the economic and social impact business policies will have on employees and on the company)
HRM - human resource management (field which deals with the management of an organization's people/employees to meet its needs and further its goals)
HUD - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (federal agency responsible for promoting housing development in the U.S., primarily through a program involving direct loans, mortgage insurance, and guarantees)