HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes."
Public Law 104-191, 104th Congress
Full list of HIPAA-related link for consumers, employers, and health providers. s.
Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
"New to HIPAA? The road to compliance starts here: HIPAAsurvey, HIPAAwhitepapers, HIPAAlatest, HIPAAnews, HIPAAregs, HIPAAction, HIPAAFAQ, HIPAAlinks, HIPAAnotes."
Phoenix Health Systems
HIPAA Privacy Rule and Its Impacts on Research
"The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule is the first comprehensive Federal protection for the privacy of personal health information. Research organizations and researchers may or may not be covered by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. This website provides information on the Privacy Rule for the research community."
National Institutes of Health, US Dept of Health and Human Services
"This nationally recognized HIPAA Compliance online training course provides doctors and their staff with a simple route to compliance. Instead of spending endless hours researching HIPAA regulations, training employees, and rewriting contracts, internal documents, patient forms, and policy and procedure manuals, doctors offices get it all simply by enrolling in the HIPAA Compliance course. This program is ideal for office administrators, practice managers, or physicians. This includes four user licenses for the cost of one enrollment. This on-line program is only offered in partnership with major colleges and universities."
Gatlin Education Services
HIPAA Guide for Parents and Patients
"HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and although it is welcome by many consumer advocacy groups and patients, it is a headache for many doctors and hospitals trying to conform to these new rules. If you haven't heard of HIPAA, you likely soon will, as the Privacy Standards component of the new law goes into effect."
About, Inc.
Update on HIPAA Medical Privacy Regulations
"An article in the October 20 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine raises the possibility that final rules published in August 2002 for the medical privacy sections of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will have a chilling effect on biomedical, epidemiologic, and health-sciences research."
The Institute for Health Freedom
