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HHS - Department of Health and Human Services
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (federal legislation designed to make health insurance portable by protecting health care coverage when workers change jobs - also provided for additional safeguards relating to protected health information (PHI) requiring physicians and other healthcare providers who conduct electronic transactions to adopt certain security measures to safeguard PHI in electronic form)
HITECH Act - Health Information Technology 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 expanded medical information privacy safeguards and established the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - strengthened the enforcement powers of HIPAA data protection rules and added a breach notification requirement)
HSA - Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Federal legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, as a cabinet-level agency, with oversight of matters dealing with U.S. national security.)
HSCHS - House Select Committee on Homeland Security
HSPD - Homeland Security Presidential Directive (Presidential directive relating to Homeland Security, probably considered a form of national security directive. Presidential directives are interpretations or clarifications of laws, which are issued by the President without congressional input, considered to be part of the President's lawmaking power but which, in contrast to executive orders and proclamations, do not have to be published in the Federel Register. In contrast to statutes and legislation, directives do not involve Congressional action or input.)
HUD - Department of Housing and Urban Development