NJHA Library & Links
HIPAA Jungle - Selected Web Links & Resources
Section: Organizations, Associations & Companies
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AFEHCT Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions. [Web Site]. Washington, DC: AFEHCT, [2001]. Accessed: August 17, 2001.
http://www.afehct.org/Promotes innovation, cooperation and open competition within the healthcare EDI industry to improve the quality of healthcare and achieve administrative simplification and cost savings. HIPPA resources include the newsletter,
Washington Wire, library and HIPAA Work Group.
AHIMA American Health Information Management Association. [Web Site]. Chicago, IL: ©2001. Accessed: April 2000.
http://www.ahima.org/Offers a wealth of information about HIPAA. See the Hot Topics area that includes articles, answers to frequently asked questions, models and plans, training, practice briefs, regulations, seminars, research and benchmarks, press releases, links and a bulletin board discussion forum.
American Hospital Association HIPAA Standards. [Web site]. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association, ©2000. Accessed: September 12, 2000.
http://www.aha.org/aha/key_issues/hipaa/index.htmlAHA's initiative offers news, links and other strategic resources. Some of this area is for AHA members only and a password is required.
AMIA American Medical Informatics Association. [Web Site]. Bethesda, MD: AMIA, 2001. Accessed: September 12, 2000.
http://www.amia.org/News, education, testimony and documents about HIPAA. Use search feature.
ANSI American National Standards Institute. [Web Site]. Washington, DC: ANSI, 2001.Accessed: August 17, 2001.
http://www.ansi.org/ANSI is a private, nonprofit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. A source for standards.
ASTM Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics. [Web Site]. West Conshohocken, PA: American Society for Testing and Materials, ©2001. Accessed: July 17, 2001.
http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/COMMIT/COMMITTEE/E31.htm?L+mystore+inkh9275+998528348Develops standards related to the architecture, content, storage, security, confidentiality, functionality and communication of information used within healthcare and healthcare decision making, including patient-specific information and knowledge. Established in 1970 with jurisdiction of more than 30 approved standards published annually
in Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Volume 14.01. Web site offers courses, subcommittee information and standards list.
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California Healthcare Foundation. [Web Site]. Oakland, CA: California Health Care Foundation, 2002. Accessed: April 1, 2002.
http://www.chcf.org/Includes topical areas for HIPAA and health privacy with resources and reports.
CHIM Center for Healthcare Information Management. [Web Site]. Ann Arbor, MI: CHIM, 2001. Accessed September 12, 2000.
http://www.chim.org/A nonprofit trade association for companies supplying information technology and management goods and services. It advocates for the adoption of strategic information management and technology in the health industry. For HIPAA, offers advocacy resources such as articles and news.
Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme. [Web Site]. Gaithersburg, MD: NIAP National Information Assurance Partnership® and NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, July 2, 2001. Accessed: August 22, 2001.
http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/index.htmlOffers consumers and producers of IT security products with up-to-the-minute information on a variety of common criteria (CC)-related matters---from the development of protection profiles and security targets to actual product evaluations, validation activities, CC certificates, certificate maintenance and mutual recognition. This site is operated by the NIAP Validation Body, a joint activity sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA).
CPT's Medical Privacy Page. [Web Site]. Washington, DC: Consumer Project on Technology, 2000. Accessed August 21, 2000.
http://www.cptech.org/privacy/medical.htmlStarted by Ralph Nader in 1995, this nonprofit focuses on intellectual property rights and health care and very broad-based electronic commerce and competition policy.
EHNAC Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission. [Web Site]. ©2000. Accessed: August 27, 2001.
http://www.ehnac.org/An independent nonprofit agency with two accreditation programs for healthcare networks and security and focuses on the process, not the tools. It accredits entities that send or receive HIPAA- regulated transactions, or that transport or process EDI transactions between two or more trading partners, such as clearinghouses, transactions processors, value-added networks (VANs), payers, providers and provider management organizations.
EPIC.org Electronic Privacy Information Center. [Web Site]. Washington, DC: EPIC. Accessed August 27, 2001.
http://epic.org/A public interest research center formed in 1994 to focus attention on emerging civil liberties issues, privacy protection and the First Amendment. Its main HIPAA use may be as source of HIPAA news and general information about privacy, to assist in understanding the broader privacy policy context surrounding HIPAA-related regulations.Publishes
HIPAA Privacy Alert newsletter for this purpose.
Forum on Privacy and Security in Healthcare. [Web Site]. Gaithersburg, MD: NIAP National Information Assurance Partnership®, n.d. Accessed: August 22, 2001.
http://www.healthcaresecurity.org/An industry group working with the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a government agency, to provide a broad-based industry perspective on security issues confronting healthcare. Offers common criteria (CC) information, documents and presentations and a newsletter. The Web site publisher, NIAP is the information technology laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration.
Health Privacy Project. [Web Site]. Washington, DC: Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Georgetown University, [2001]. Accessed: August 16, 2001.
http://www.healthprivacy.org/Offers resources that raise public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve healthcare access and quality, both on an individual and community level. Provides research studies, policy analysis, testimony and media relations.
Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (HISB). [Web Site]. Washington, DC: American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 2001. Accessed: August 17, 2001.
http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hisb/overview.aspx?menuid=3A public forum for the voluntary coordination of healthcare informatics standards including ANSI-accredited and other standards developing organizations, professional societies, trade associations, private companies, federal agencies, and others. Offers numerous documents and information about meetings relative to health data and HIPAA.
HIMSS Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. [Web Site]. Chicago, IL: HIMSS, 2001. http://www.himss.orgHIMSS represents healthcare information and management systems professionals in four professional areas: clinical, IS, management engineering and telecommunications. The Web site offers HIPAA as one of its main areas and provides audio broadcasts, CD-ROM, books, weekly news, journal articles and proceedings of seminars. Some of the site is for members only including a bulletin board forum.
HIPAAdvisory. [Web Site]. [Montgomery Village, MD:] Phoenix Health Systems, ©2000-2001. Accessed October 3, 2000.
http://www.hipaadvisory.com/This HIPAA Web site offers a wealth of resources specifically for hospitals and providers. Two noteworthy offerings are
HIPAAlert, a monthly free e-mail newsletter and HIPAAlive, a discussion forum. HIPAAdvisory, the Web site itself, provides a broad selection of reports, news, articles and views about a wide variety of HIPAA issues. Not to be missed.
HIPAA Central. [Web Site]. Malvern, PA: Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation, ©2001. Accessed: August 20, 2001.
http://www.smed.com/hipaa/index.phpA commercial site with current offerings as well as a free e-mail service. Offers industry insights from experts in the field, via downloadable transcripts. Provides news, events and online education courses.
HIPAAcomply. [Web Site]. [Boston, Mass: Beacon Partners], ©2001. Accessed: August 27, 2001.
http://www.hipaacomply.com/This national healthcare management consulting firm includes an extensive FAQ of HIPAA questions and answers that is more than 75 pages long organized with a topical table of contents. Also includes news and information and links to legal resources.
Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA). [Web Site]. 2001. Accessed: February 6, 2001.
http://www.jhita.org/An alliance of AHIMA, AMIA, CHIM, CHIME and HIMSS. Focuses on advocacy, legislation and regulation as well as educational programs, focus groups, research and activities related to information technology, telecommunications and business process re-engineering. Offers joint conferences, news and issue papers on HIPAA.
[National HIPAA Summit]. [Web Site]. Seattle, WA: Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC., ©2001. Accessed: March 14, 2001.
http://hipaasummit.comThis site provides information about this national educational summit, offered annually since 2000. It includes current and prior conference agendas and online presentation materials. If you need to do a HIPAA presentation, stop here for ideas from experts.
NCHIA HIPAA Information. [Web Site]. Research Triangle Park, NC: North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc., April 18, 2001. Accessed August 27, 2001.
http://www.nchica.org/A privately funded nonprofit membership organization promoting advancement and integration of information technology within the healthcare industry. It offers both general information on HIPAA as well as members-only bulletin boards for discussion. Public information includes a self-assessment tool, extensive yellow pages, job descriptions, white papers and other practice tools.
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Patient Safety Institute (PSI). [Web Site]. Plano, TX: PSI, 2002. Accessed: April 1, 2002.
http://www.ptsafety.org/A nonprofit collaborative initiative, patient-centered and community driven launched in December 2001.
Rx2000 Institute Information Clearinghouse. [Web site]. Minneapolis, MN: Rx2000 Institute, ©2000. Accessed: February 11, 2000.
http://www.rx2000.org/This site includes a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ's), how to subscribe to their HIPAA listserv, an e-mail-based discussion forum, articles and publications.
SNIP Strategic National Implementation Process. [Web Site]. Reston, VA: SNIP, ©2001. Accessed: July 17, 2001.
http://snip.wedi.org/SNIP is a collaborative healthcare industry-wide process resulting in the development and implementation of standards. It assesses readiness for HIPAA administrative simplification and coordinates national activities for each stakeholder group including health plans, providers, clearinghouses and vendors.
WEDi Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. [Web Site]. Reston, VA: WEDi, ©2001. Accessed: July 17, 2001.
http://www.wedi.org/Fosters support for adoption of electronic commerce within healthcare. It provides information about the topic, related activities, reports, conference announcements, news, legislative information and a member directory.