HIPAA Compliance and Confidentiality of Customer Data On August 21, 1996, President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA. This law impacts all areas of the health care industry and was designed to improve the efficiency of health care by standardizing the exchange of administrative and financial data, and to protect the privacy, confidentiality and security of health care information. Privacy and Security We have you sign a HIPAA form when you first visit our office. We ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your health records, we also ensure that transmission of data is authenticated and has the property of non-repudiation. For a look at HIPAA in more depth you can visit here.