The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) was created in 1996 in order to protect the use and disclosure of private medical information. Now with a new technological box, HIPPA laws can be further enforced. The box is currently being used in Georgia’s DeKalb Medical Center, and is connected to the hospital's computing system. Personal medical information needs to stay personal. The purpose of the box is to detect anything in a message, whether it’s email or an instant message, that would be considered private information. The box, then encrypts the private information, and sends it to its destination. Sometimes personal information needs to be sent in a digital format. This just makes the transaction safer to do. This is a huge step in terms of technology and privacy rights working together.
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