About HIPAA

HIPAA Glossary (WEDI)

HIPAA standards for use of individually identifiable health information for marketing and fundraising

HHS Privacy Fact Sheet

AHA Model Privacy Notice and Consent Notice

About HIPAA
The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) are intended to reduce the costs and administrative burdens of health care.  Regulations enacted from HIPAA make possible the standardized, electronic transmission of many administrative and financial transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper.

In the August 17, 2000 Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published final regulations adopting standards for electronic healthcare transactions and code sets.  In the December 28, 2000 Federal Register HHS published final regulations to implement the privacy requirements of HIPAA.  NHA has developed this page to provide you with current HIPAA news and additional resources.

AHIMA provides model privacy officer job description
Hospitals and other health care providers scrambling to develop a job description for a privacy officer as mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act have a new guide for that task from the American Health Information Management Association.  While health information management professionals have been embracing the patient information privacy issue for decades, AHIMA said, the new job description "recognizes the increased complexity of protecting patients' privacy while managing access to and release of information about patients and health care consumers." For a copy of AHIMA's position statement for a privacy official or the privacy officer sample position description, go to http://www.ahima.org/dc/positions/PrivOffState2k1.cfm."   

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Links to other HIPAA resources:
HFMA's HIPAA Update

CPRI Host HIPAA Security Tool Kit

AHIMA's analysis of the privacy regulation

Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange

HIPAA Implementation Guides

American Hospital Association HIPAA Standards

HIPAA information site developed by the Ohio Hospital Association

HHS HIPAA regulations, (note, the entire regulation is very large - 1500 pages)

Web site of the American Health Information Management Association

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance

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