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(keys clicking) - Hi, this is Karl with Small Biz Thoughts, and today I want to talk about HIPAA and specifically three different pieces of what you need to know, training, compliance and documentation. So, first of all, what is HIPAA? Well, more importantly, what is HITECH? HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and HITECH, which is an acronym, stands for the Health Insurance Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. In other words, it's the part that implements HIPAA for IT professionals. So the first thing you have to figure out is training. So where do you get training? Well, there's lots of places to get training, but I recommend that you go see my friend, Mike Semel from Semel Consulting. So Mike wrote a book on HIPAA headaches, which makes one extremely strong point. HIPAA sucks when it comes to defining what you have to do and how you manage compliance. What HIPAA does is sets up a way for you to demonstrate that you have been compliant, but th