; Portability: It is much easier to write a small p-code interpreter for a new machine than it is to modify a compiler to generate native code for the same machine.

< sup >( 2 ) Due to Local Number Portability there is no longer a difference between Land-Line, Coaxial, and Wireless exchanges or prefixes.

Portability toward other operating systems, such as BSD-derived ones including Mac OS X, is under active development by the Gentoo / Alt project.

Portability is a design goal of the project.

Baker is a moderate-to-liberal Republican who is known for her health care legislation, known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was co-sponsored by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democrat.

* Simplicity and Portability: Transporting, setting up, and operating a Dobsonian telescope is simpler than for many other designs.

* Portability across processors: it currently runs on ARM, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SPARC, and x86 architectures and is readily portable to others.

The X / Open Portability Guide is a standard for UNIX systems originally published by X / Open Company Ltd.

Wireless Number Portability is available in some parts of Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America and most European countries including Britain ; however, this relates to transferability between mobile phone lines only.

The Mobile Number Portability Company is jointly owned by the mobile and fixed operators including Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Telkom and Neotel.

If session information is considered transient, volatile data that is not required for non-repudiation of transactions and doesn't contain data that is subject to compliance auditing ( in the U. S. for example, see the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for examples of two laws that necessitate compliance auditing ) then any method of storing session information can be used.

In the United States, this class of information is referred to as Protected Health Information ( PHI ) and its management is addressed under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) as well as many local laws ..

The Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act ( HIPAA ) is a federal law pertaining to medical privacy that went into effect in 2003.

Portability is restricted to systems running X Window ( essentially the Unix world ).

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) Privacy Rules requires notice in writing of the privacy practices of health care services, and this requirement also applies if the health service is electronic.

* Compatibility is a new characteristic, with Co-existence moved from Portability and Interoperability moved from Functionality.

All data transfer is designed to be consistent with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) privacy and security guidelines

One of the primary focuses of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ), is to protect a patient's PII.

In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ), quality standards in long-term care facilities ( more commonly referred to as nursing homes ) through its survey and certification process, and clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.

The medical billing field has been challenged in recent years due to the introduction of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ).

In response to the increased amount of health care fraud in the United States, Congress, through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ), has specifically established health care fraud as a federal criminal offense with punishment of up to ten years of prison in addition to significant financial penalties.

* Portability has Co-existence moved elsewhere.

Note: Mobile Number Portability has been in operation since 2003.

Local Number Portability to be implemented in near future.

A nurse shredding papers in order to be compliant with the physical safeguard section of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ).

* Portability: Whether or not the saved state can be used on different machines to restart the application.

Portability was a problem in the early days because there was no agreed standard — not even IBM's reference manual — and computer companies vied to differentiate their offerings from others by providing incompatible features.

* Hoffman, Eva R. ( 2007 ): Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century, in: Hoffman, Eva R.

* Common Application Environment, from X / Open Portability Guide, a specification for Unix-like operating systems

In the United States, there are a variety of state and federal laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA ( which regulates the gathering and use of credit data ), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) ( which regulates the gathering and use of consumer health data ), and various programs that enable consumers to suppress their telephones numbers from telemarketing.

* The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) prohibits a health benefit plan from refusing to cover an employee's pre-existing medical conditions in some circumstances.

Mobile Number Portability will allow existing customers ( or customers from other carriers ) to move to TelstraClear ( on Vodafone ) with the appropriate handset, and keep their existing mobile number.

; Portability: The system accepts and manages orders for all departments at the point-of-care, from any location in the health system ( physician's office, hospital or home ) through a variety of devices, including wireless PCs and tablet computers.

* IDA Singapore, Singapore to Enjoy Full Mobile Number Portability from 13 June

Local number portability ( LNP ) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability ( FMNP ) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a " customer of record " of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier ( LEC ) to reassign the number to another carrier (" Service Provider Portability "), move it to another location (" Geographic Portability "), or change the type of service (" Service Portability ").

Certain privacy rights have been established in the United States via legislation such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ), the Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act ( GLB ), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ).

* August 21, 1996: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ),,

* August 21, 1996: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ),,

* Full text of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( PDF / TXT ) U. S. Government Printing Office

The group published its specifications under the name X / Open Portability Guide ( or XPG ).

The last version of the XPG, the X / Open Portability Guide Issue 4 ( also known as the Common Applications Environment Specification Issue 4 ( CAE4 )), was published in July 1992 by The Open Group.

No. 2005 / 040348 / 07 ) was established in 2005 and Mobile Number Portability was introduced on 10 November 2006.

* X / Open Portability Guide, the predecessor to POSIX

Later versions upgraded the X11 server to release 4, and was certified to conform to the X / Open Portability Guide 3 Base profile.

* Portability across operating systems: Linux / BSD / Win32