Resources For Additional Information

Government Websites:
HSS Administrative Simplification: http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/

DHHS Office of Civil Rights – Privacy of Health Records: www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/final/pvcguide1.htm

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: http://www.cms.hhs.gov

Health Care/Medical Association:
Medical Association of Georgia (MAG): http://www.mag.org/
American Medical Association (AMA): http://www.ama-assn.org
American Hospital Association (AHA): http://www.aha.org
American Health Information Management Association: http://ahima.org
Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS): http://www.himss.org
Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT): http://www.afehct.org

HIPAA Implementation Tools:
Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and SNIP: http://www.wedi.org
EDI Implementation Guides: http://hipaa.wpc-edi.com/
CPRI Toolkit - Managing Information Security in Healthcare, Vol. 3:
http://www.cpri-host.org/toolkit/toc.html
Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP): http://www.sharpworkgroup.com
The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, INC- Security Gap Analysis Tool: http://www.nicha.org

Other Informative HIPAA Websites:
HIPAA Advisory:http://www.hipaadvisory.com/regs/index.htm
Healthcare Compliance Association: http://www.hcca-info.org
Standard Guide for Security: http://www.astm.org

Computer-based Patient Record Institute
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.
http://www.bricker.com/hipaa/regs.asp

HIPAA Privacy Information Center
Review the reports and Information about State laws from the Health Privacy Project, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Georgetown University.
http://www.healthprivacy.org/resources/statereports/contents.html

American Health Lawyers’ Association: http://www.healthlawyers.org/
Search the Health Lawyers site for articles, health law news updates as well as links to other health law web sites.

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