HIPAA

Documentation
Medicare EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)	Medicare HIPAA Documents
The Healthcare Privacy & Security Supersite	Collections of PDF files of the most popular Rules, Regulations, and Government Documents.
General
American Health Information Management Association	A professional association that represents educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry.
American Health Lawyers Association	Provides news about the latest developments in health law and useful, timely analyses of the issues that affect health law professionals.
Association for Electronic Health Care Transaction	HIPAA Workgroup.
California Office of HIPAA Implementation	California Office of HIPAA Implementation (CalOHI) Web Site.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services	The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for implementing various unrelated provisions of HIPAA.
CMHC Systems	A recognized software vendor in the development of technology and management information systems for human service organizations. Integrating clinical, financial, demographic, and staff data.
County Issues Workgroup Directory	A CalOHI website for HIPAA Statewide Workgroups to share information, ask questions and develop a network with others.
FirstGov	A search engine for government websites that provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources. The link takes you to a search result of "HIPAA".
HHS Data Council	The HHS Data Council coordinates all health and non-health data collection and analysis activities of the Department of Health and Human Services.
HIPAA OnLine	This interactive tool, provided by the Federal Government, helps answer questions about health coverage and individual rights and protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
HIPAAcomply	The definitive source for up-to-date information regarding HIPAA security & privacy compliance.
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics	The Public Advisory Body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Committee serves as a forum for interaction with interested private sector groups on a variety of key health data issues.
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)	Creates and promotes data interchange standards for the pharmacy services sector of the health care industry.
National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)	Official source for news on the recent developments in billing and claims related transactions.
The New Hampshire & Vermont Strategic HIPAA Implementation Plan (NHVSHIP)	A volunteer organization of hospitals, physicians, other healthcare providers, health plans, state health departments, and vendors.
U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services Administrative Simplification (DHHS)	U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services Administrative Simplification.
Workgroups for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)	A group that works on HIPAA transaction implementation. This site provides information, reports, publications and activities related to HIPAA.
Privacy
Health Privacy Project	Institute working on raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Privacy	HHS Guidance and Fact Sheet on Final Privacy Rule. HHS Office is responsible for implementing and enforcing the privacy regulations.
Security
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Security	Security Standards - HHS Proposed Rule published in the Federal Register on 8/12/98. Comment period ended October 13, 1998
Standard
Accredited Standards Committee X12	The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 develops standards for cross-industry electronic exchange of business information.
Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission	EHNAC establishes criteria for measuring the performance of clearinghouse and value-added networks.
Health Level Seven	Health Level Seven is an ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDOs) which produces standards in clinical and administrative data.
National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC)	Develops a standardized data set for use by the non-institutional health care community to transmit claim and encounter information to and from all third-party payers. NUCC is one of the organizations to be consulted by the American National Standards.
Training
Aardvark Forms	Provides HIPAA compliance products such as training guide, reference books, video tapes and audiotapes.
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc.	Produces multimedia HIPAA computer-based training courseware for healthcare organizations.
State of California Health & Human Services Agency Data Center	Health & Human Services Agency Data Center (HHSDC)'S Training Center.