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Is your organization seeking to comply with new legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley, HSPD-12, HIPAA, BASEL II, or Gramm-Leach-Bliley, or simply looking to increase the managment and efficiency of your enterprise?

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HIPAA is U.S. Public Law 104-191 – the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Congress passed the Act to progress the health care offered by the nation’s various health plans and providers.

Title II of HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the creation of nationwide standards for electronic health care transactions.

All health care organizations are required by law to follow laws of The Department of Health and Human Services regarding health information including paper files and electronic information. Non-compliance can lead to legal ramifications including civil penalties, fines and/or imprisonment.

The following is a list of some websites that may be useful in achieving HIPAA compliance.

http://www.hipaa.org - Has resources and links to HIPAA checklist and HIPAA enforcement guidlines information.

http://ncvhs.hhs.gov - National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics - The public advisory body to the secretary of health and human services. HIPAA transaction standards, Recommendations on the National Provider Identifier (NPI)

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics was established by Congress to serve as an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services on health data, statistics and national health information policy. It fulfills important review and advisory functions relative to health data and statistical problems of national and international interest, stimulates or conducts studies of such problems and makes proposals for improvement of the Nation’s health statistics and information systems. In 1996, the Committee was restructured to meet expanded responsibilities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

The NCVHS is in a unique position to serve as a national forum for the collaboration of interested parties, with the long-term goal of improving the compatibility of private sector, state, and federal health information systems while assuring the confidentiality of the information collected.

The Committee informs HHS data policy decision-making as well as private sector and State data policy decision-making. Participants bring their expertise, perspectives, and concerns to the Committee, and bring back to their respective industries and organizations the collective recommendations and rationale of the Committee.

Calendar of meetings: http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/calendat.htm

http://www.wpc-edi.com Has information on HIPAA Implementation Guides - Has an entire catalogue of PDF files on topics such as EDI Publications, EDI Standards - electronic data interchange. Info on Health Care Claim Payment: 835 This 005010 ANSI ASC X12 Technical Report covers the same business processes as the HIPAA mandated 004010A1 X12N Implementation Guide

http://www.aepnetworks.com- technology - software solutions, for government, healthcare, education, compliance and corporate governance. High-speed broadband, remote and wireless access to company networks can help boost business productivity, but they also make IT systems vulnerable to attack. Scan the headlines of any IT journal and it’s obvious that network security is a hot topic for many businesses. If companies aren’t motivated to protect their data centers, compliance regulations—like Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and GLB—are reason enough to take action.
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http://www.mspalliance.com/psysb/ - The MSPAlliance is the only Professional Association and accrediting body for the Managed Services Industry.

http://www.wedi.org - Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. Electronic delivery of information in healthcare. Has information on Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP), National Provider Identifier Outreach Initiative (NPIOI), Electronic Health Records (EHR).

http://www.wedi.org/snip/public/articles/index%7E4.shtml - HIPAA consultants, CAQH/WEDI Partnership on Health Plan Electronic Transactions, Other HIPAA Resources-Privacy and Security resources.

http://www.wedi.org/snip/public/articles/index%7E11.shtml -

http://thomas.loc.gov - Search for text of Bills and legislative information from the Library of Congress on HIPAA

http://www.RSA.com - Information Risk management for financial services. Helps to streamline compliance efforts and create clear opportunities for business acceleration. Has technology solutions for healthcare providers.

To achieve compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health care providers, health plans and health care clearinghouses as well as their business partners must have the systems in place to capture, collect and protect data required by the regulations.

http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3193

http://www.rsa.com/glossary/?id=1024 - Information security glossary - “Guard Data Integrity, Confidentiality and Availability”

http://www.oracle.com/identity - Oracle Identity Management Resource Library

http://www.oracle.com/industries/healthcare/index.html - Quote from site "10 of the top 12 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations run Oracle applications, and 70 percent of the top multi-hospital systems in the United States run Oracle technology"

http://www.hipaacomply.com - A comprehensive resource for up to date HIPAA security and privacy compliance. Has Links to Federal & State legislative info., Privacy Regulations, Security Regulations... + a lot more

http://www.ahima.org - American Health Information Management Association

A professional community that improves healthcare by advancing best practices and standards for health information management and the trusted source for education, research, and professional credentialing.

More than 51,000 professionals and students have joined AHIMA

http://www.aha.org - American Hospital Association - The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.

Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends.

http://www.ehnac.org - Electronic Netword Accredidation Comission -

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission was established by health care industry participants as an independent, not-for-profit accrediting body. It is comprised of an Executive Director and no less than nine (9) industry and consumer representatives from the following groups:

Clearinghouses, value added networks, healthcare transaction processors and related regulatory entities;
Private payers or insurers, self-insured plans, or their trade associations, and government payers;
Healthcare security organizations or their trade associations;
Providers, hospitals, physicians, other healthcare providers, or their trade associations; and
Consumer organizations, vendors and members of the general public.

http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/datacncl/ - Office of Data Policy - Department of Health and Human Services Data Council - The HHS Data Council coordinates all health and human services data collection and analysis activities of the Department of Health and Human Services..

http://www.hhs.gov - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - a major resource for laws - List lots of other important sites ***

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ - Includes HIPAA fact sheets, Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information, HIPAA Regulations & Standards, eductational materials, HIPAA-Related Links ***

http://www.cms.hhs.gov - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Includes section on regulations and guidance for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - and links to service providers.

http://www.beaconpartners.com - Healthcare management consultants.

http://www.amia.org - American Medical Informatics Association - Biomedical and health informatics. Biomedical and health informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care.

http://www.himss.org - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. HIPAA & HITSP

http://www.ahla.org - American Health Lawyers Association - The nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field with more than 10,000 members.

http://pweb.netcom.com/~ottx4/HIPAA.htm - Has links to state medicaid sites & state HIPAA sites, Professional Associations and Organizations, Journals, Publications and Businesses (.com & .net), ListServs*****

http://www.trainforhipaa.com/ - TRAIN FOR HIPAA Train for HIPAA offers comprehensive HIPAA training ranging from e-learning solutions, through onsite training, to special access to national conferences and audioconferences.

http://www.ihs.gov/AdminMngrResources/HIPAA/index.cfm - Indian Health Services - The Federal Health Program for American Indians & Alaska Natives.

http://www.hipaagives.org - Government Information Value Exchange for States (GIVES) is a collaborative state government health care focus group resulting in the sharing of information through a clearinghouse highway and providing a forum for discussing and resolving issues in meeting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation.

http://www.hipaagives.org/relatedlinks.asp - Links

http://www.healthprivacy.org - The health privacy project - Has ListServ, links to federal and state health privacy laws

http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html - The health hippo - Health Hippo is a collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care - A lot of regulation has followed passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which has been called "one-third of the President's health care reform' effort."

http://www.nucc.org - National Uniform Claim Comittee

http://csrc.nist.gov/ computer security resource center

http://www.networkworld.com - Education, information, and news about network technology.

HIPAA Checklists

http://www.hipaarx.net HIPAA solutions - Education, resources, and consultin on HIPAA

http://www.aishealth.com Atlantic Information Services - Health plan facts, trends and data. highly targeted news, data and strategic information for managers in hospitals, health plans, medical group practices, pharmaceutical companies and other health care organizations.

http://www.hipaadvisory.com - The HIPAA hub of the internet - Tapes, CDs, compliance tools, news and much more!

http://www.healthcareedu.org - Your workforce, as members of a covered healthcare enterprise, must be trained in HIPAA Privacy and Security. "The most authoritative HIPAA content available."

http://www.nubc.org - National Uniform Billing Committee - The National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) was brought together by the American Hospital Association (AHA) in 1975 and it includes the participation of all the major national provider and payer organizations.

http://www.ncpdp.org - National Council for Prescription Drug Programs - A not-for-profit ANSI-Accredited Standards Development Organization

http://www.ncpdp.org/news_hipaa.asp - The HIPAA info

http://www.x12.org/ technology - The Accredited Standards Committee

http://www.himss.org Health Care Information and Management Systems Society

http://www.disa.org - Data Interchange Standards Association - the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) is home for the development of cross-industry electronic business interchange standards.

http://www.hipaa.org/pmsdirectory/ EDI Practice Management System Directory - Software directory*

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