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Online HIPAA resource providers

These are free and public resources.

American Mental Health Association. This group of private practitioners is doing a splendid job in raising awareness of the continuing erosion of our health privacy. If you find their materials and efforts valuable, please join them.
http://www.americanmentalhealth.com/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This is the official website of the CMS part of the DHHS which is assigned to address HIPAA. You can find the official word, offer feedback, read FAQs, and even ask questions.
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/

Health Hippo: Everything HIPAA and some fun. A commercial site.
http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html

HIPAAdirect. If you need something unusual this is a directory with over 1,200 categorized links to HIPAA information on the internet.
http://www.hipaadirect.com/


HIPAAdvisory. "The HIPAA hub of the Internet." A rich set of sites (18, I think) with current and lively coverage of events, FAQs, Q&As, and other stuff. Commercial but lightly so.
http://www.hipaadvisory.com/

There are at least several thousand consultants and several hundred software firms offering HIPAA advice and products and all on the web. If you need more than this book offers a Google search (www.google.com) will keep you entertained for hours.

Because I cannot know all your needs here are sites of some otherprofessions concerned with HIPAA:

    * American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)   http://www.ahima.org/
    * American Health Lawyers Association's listserv Health Information and Technology
                                                                                                                http://www.healthlawyers.org/
    * Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)                       http://www.wedi.org/

All of these links worked when this page was last revised on Dec. 26, 2007