HIPPA Information

HIPAA Information

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA is designed to protect confidential health care information through federal security standards and privacy legislation. All healthcare organizations will ultimately be affected by HIPAA legislative rules.

The time to initiate a compliance process is now. This web page is dedicated to providing information updates that keep you abreast of changing HIPAA regulations and to keep you notified of product enhancements that will facilitate your institution's compliance with these new regulations.

For more information on HIPAA visit the following sites:

http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/	Department of Health and Human Services, Administrative Simplification
http://www.hcfa.gov/	Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
http://www.hcfa.gov/hcfainit.htm	HCFA and DHHS Initiatives
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/edi/edi.htm	Medicare Electronic Data Interchange EDI)
http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/	Department of Health and Human Services, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
http://www.wedi.org/	Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
http://www.jhita.org/hipaarule.htm	Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA), HIPAA Rulemaking
http://www.nucc.org	National Uniform Claim Committee
http://www.nubc.org	National Uniform Billing Committee
http://hipaa.wpc-edi.com/HIPAA_40.asp	Washington Publishing Co.– Guidelines, data conditions and data dictionary for X12N standards