HIPAAlinks: Interested Industry Groups
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org
For a firsthand look at the ACLU's "mini-campaign" effort to beef
up health information privacy, visit their site and click on "Act
Now." Also, search the ACLU web site for HIPAA articles, testimonies
and reports on behalf of the public.
American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org
Search ADA's web site for HIPAA-related articles and news briefs.
Review the ADA's position on e-commerce.
American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4234.html
Search the AMA's web site for HIPAA related articles,
comments on regulations, position statements, and news briefs.
American Hospital Association
http://www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/key_issues/hipaa/index.html
The American Hospital Association maintains this site
of HIPAA information featuring a HIPAA overview, information on
AHA activities, HIPAA implementation tools and resources.
American Nurses Association
http://www.ana.org/search/
Search the ANA's web site for HIPAA-related articles, comments
or regulations, work group proceedings and news briefs. The ANA
provides input for development of HL7 and ANSI_HISB.
American Health Information Management Association
http://www.ahima.org
American Health Information Management Association is pivotal
in developing policies to meet information management standards
as mandated by the government and other regulatory and accrediting
organizations.
American Health Lawyers Association
http://www.healthlawyers.org/index.cfm
The American Health Lawyers Association (Health Lawyers) is the
nation's largest, nonpartisan, educational organization devoted
to legal issues in the healthcare field.
American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/public_policy/fpolicy.html
America Medical Informatics Association is dedicated to
the development and application of medical informatics in support
of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
AMIA has been playing a key role in monitoring, and providing input
into legislation and administrative regulation on medical records
privacy and confidentiality. Review their comments on the HIPAA
standards.
All Law
http://www.alllaw.com
All Law is a law resource web site sponsored by Attorney
Internet Services (AIS) where individual topics can be searched
for by Federal or State regulations. Know how your state laws interact
with HIPAA regulations.
Association for Electronic Healthcare Transactions
http://www.afehct.org
Be involved with the organization recognized in Washington as the
"proactive health care EDI industry association." AFEHCT
is dedicated to supporting the use of EDI to improve and reduce
the cost of health care and has been very active with HIPAA issues.
Community Health Information Technology Alliance
http://www.chita.org
Community Health Information Technology Alliance is involved
with efforts across the nation to improve the effectiveness of the
health system by expanding the use of electronic business in a manner
that will serve and protect the consumers of health care. CHITA
has been involved as a workgroup for the transaction standards.
Computer-based Patient Record Institute
http://www.cpri-host.org
CPRI represents health care interests that focus on clinical applications
of information technology. It brings diverse interests together
to improve health care quality and cost through this technology.
CPRI has created a "tool kit" to assist the healthcare
industry in compliance efforts with security and privacy of the
computer-based patient record.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center is a research center
in Washington, D.C. that focuses public attention on emerging civil
liberties issues. It aims to protect privacy, the First Amendment,
and constitutional values.
Georgetown University's Health Privacy Project's Working Group
http://www.healthprivacy.org
Georgetown University's Health Privacy Project's Working Group
includes health advocates, health plans, providers, employers, standards
and accreditation organizations, and information systems experts.
Their report, "Best Principles for Health Privacy," plus extensive
commentary on the proposed privacy rule, and a current, comprehensive
guide to state privacy laws are available on the site.
The Federal Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
http://psa-uny.org/jr/
The Federal Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege offers history,
numerous documents and opinions regarding psychotherapist-patient
privacy concerns.
Forum for Privacy and Security in Healthcare
http://www.healthcaresecurity.org/documents.html
Link to numerous articles and presentation from the Forum for
Privacy and Security in Healthcare. Their works with the National
Information Assurance Partnership, a government agency, covers broad
view of issues affecting health care that relate to security issues
and HIPAA.
Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
http://www.hcca-info.org/
HCCA exists to champion ethical practice and compliance standards
in the health care community and to provide the necessary resources
for compliance professionals and others who share these principles.
Health Hippo
http://hippo.findlaw.com/electron.html
Look at the Health Hippo collection of policy and regulatory
materials related to health care created by the FindLaw web index.
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
http://www.hfma.org
HFMA is a personal membership organization for more than 33,000
financial management professionals employed by hospitals, integrated
delivery systems, long-term and ambulatory care facilities, managed
care organizations, medical group practices, public accounting and
consulting firms, insurance companies, government agencies, and
other healthcare organizations. They maintain a HIPAA resources
page at http://www.hfma.org/kn/hipaa.htm
Health Information Program (HIP)
http://www.healthinfoprogram.com
HIP, developed by the Washington State Hospital Association, provides
analytical capabilities and delivers timely, accurate, and cost-effective
data and reports to association members and the greater health care
community. Their HIPAA page provides a wide range of resources.
Health Lawyers
http://www.healthlawyers.org
Search the HealthLawyers site for articles, health law news updates
as well as links to other health law web sites.
HIPAA Central
http://www.smed.com/hipaa/
Sieman's Medical Solutions (makers of healthcare information systems)
maintains this HIPAA site. Included is an overview, articles, and
links.
HIPAA GIVES
http://www.hipaagives.org
Government Information Value Exchange for States (GIVES) is a collaborative
state government health care focus group resulting in the sharing
of information through a clearinghouse highway and providing a forum
for discussing and resolving issues in meeting the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation.
ICSA.net
http://www.icsalabs.com
ICSA is involved with making the web a more secure place
for internet applications through. It is a service for security
assurance for companies connected on the Internet
The Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
http://www.jhita.org
The Joint Healthcare Technology Alliance includes AHIMA,
AMIA, CHIM, CHIME, and HIMSS. It provides a variety of HIPAA information
including advocacy papers and technology resources
Medical Records Institute
http://www.medrecinst.com/
Links are available to learn about the technology behind the EHR
and the legislative acts and standards that are driving this effort.
From the site for the Medical Records Institute.
The National Academy of Sciences
http://www.nationalacademies.org
The National Academy of Sciences and its sister organizations
-- the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine,
and the National Research Council was especially created to advise
on scientific issues that frequently pervade policy decisions. Search
under HIPAA for information about their Institutional Review Boards:
Health Services Research Data Privacy Protection Project.
National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
http://www.nahdo.org/
NAHDO is a non-profit, membership and educational organization
dedicated to improving health and health systems through publicly
available health information.
National Committee for Quality Assurance
http://www.ncqa.org/pages/communications/news/confrel.htm
Read the eye-opening report from the JCAHO and NCQA about "Protecting
Personal Health Information: A Framework for Meeting the Challenges
in a Managed Care Environment."
The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications
Alliance, Inc.
http://www.nchica.org
Use the HIPAA link from The North Carolina Healthcare Information
and Communications Alliance, Inc web site to reach many HIPAA
resources. NCHICA is an organization that actively promotes the
advancement and integration of information technology into the healthcare
industry.
Medical, Legal, Governmental, Regulatory & Compliance Resources:
Pam Pohly's Net Guide
http://www.pohly.com/admin3.html
Review numerous links to reference materials for many health topics
that deal with Regulatory and Government issues. Pam Pohly's
Net Guide was designed to assist health care professionals and
administrators in finding pertinent resources.
The Center for Social and Legal Research
http://www.PrivacyExchange.org
Search under the link "About this site" for HIPAA-related
publications and activities. This site is operated by The Center
for Social and Legal Research. It is an online resource that
has model policies for the international community on Privacy as
well as awareness of laws throughout the world that impact Privacy.
Rx2000 Institute
http://www.rx2000.org/
The Rx2000 Institute is committed to bridging healthcare's "organizational
digital divide" to ensure critical information reaches the
healthcare community regardless of size, funding or technological
sophistication. The Institute is supported by its membership, fees
for service, foundation grants and vendor sponsorships.
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