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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. |
California Office of HIPAA Implementation |
California Office of HIPAA Implementation (CalOHI) Web Site. |
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". |
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. |
U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services Administrative Simplification (DHHS) |
U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services Administrative Simplification. |
Privacy  |
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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  |
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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 |
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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. |