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Definition: a private or public healthcare entity that facilitates the processingof nonstandard electronic transactions into HIPAA transactions (e.g., a billingservice).

Definition: healthcare organizations covered under HIPAA regulationssuch as public health authorities, healthcare clearinghouses, and self-insuredemployers, life insurers, information systems vendors, and universities.

Definition: the application of communication and informationtechnology to medical practice, research, and education.

Definition:  the process of medically altering reproductive organs so as to terminatethe ability to produce offspring.

Definition: the injection of seminal fluid that contains male sperminto the female’s vagina from her husband, partner, or donor by some meansother than sexual intercourse.

Definition: sterilization of certain categories of persons,such as the cognitively disabled or impaired, in order to prevent them from passingon defective genes to their children.

Definition:  in the case of a fetus, ability to survive outside of the uterus.

Definition: an abortion caused by artificial means such as medications or surgical procedures.

Definition: missing a brain and spinal cord.

 Definition: law that provides legal penalties for any harmdone to an unborn child at federal facilities such as military bases or in crimesthat cross state lines.