How can database technology be used to help Mountain View Community Hospital comply with the security standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)? HIPAA requires health-care providers to maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure that the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of electronic health information they collect, maintain, use, or transmit is protected. (For more details on HIPAA, visit www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy.)