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Latest Legislative Activity

Final Enforcement Rule published in Federal Register

February 16, 2006

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Resources

• Acronym Glossary
• HIPAA Overview and Summary
• Benefits of Administrative Simplification
• CMS HIPAA Webpage
• Healthcare EDI Legislation: A Historical Overview
• Commercial: Law Firms: McDermott Will & Emery: HIPAA Information
• Government: HIPAA Gives (Government Information Value Exchange for States)
• National Organizations:WEDI/SNIP (Strategic National Implementation Process) and List Serve; WEDI/SNIP HIPAA Tool Resource Directory

References

• EDI Compliance Planning Checklist
• Medscape (WebMd) Resource Center for HIPAA Compliance. The Resouce Center includes article links, news updates, links to government and professional association websites, as well as conference coverage. FREE resgistration is required.

Education

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - the "Achieving Compliance Together" series of free online live streaming videos. 
• MHDC - Conferences, Focus-of-the-Month, Internet Professionals Forum, Privacy Officers' Forum, ...
• Academic Medicine: American Medical Centers, www.amc-hipaa.org
• Academic Medicine:American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) - HIPAA Teleconference Series
• Academic Medicine: HIPAA @ Yale University
• Academic Medicine: University of Oklahoma, HIPAA Privacy Policies and Procedures

Regional Initiatives: Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Medical Society's HIPAA Index page

Regional Initiatives: Other States

• HIPAA - Collaborative of Wisconsin (hippacow.org)
• HIPAA Gives (Government Information Value Exchange for States)
• HIPAA Action Workgroup of Kentucky (HAWK)
• North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA), HIPAA Sample Documents
• Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP)
• Washington State, Department of Social and Health Services, HIPAA Partnership website
• WEDI/SNIP (Strategic National Implementation Process) and List Serve

This page last updated September 20, 2006

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