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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) home
http://www.hhs.gov/

Best general starting point for information about health-related activities of the federal government.

DHHS - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) - HIPAA Administrative Simplification
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/index.shtml

ASPE site provides links to proposed and final regulations, DHHS guidance documents, answers to FAQs, and a HIPAA listserv.

DHHS - Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - HIPAA Administrative Simplification
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/default.asp

CMS site has links for health insurance reform (HIPAA Title I) and administrative simplification (HIPAA Title II). Some of the same information as the ASPE site, but more comprehensive.

DHHS - CMS - Electronic Data Interchange
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/edi/

CMS's EDI pages provide information and links for a range of HIPAA-related topics.

DHHS - Data Council
http://aspe.hhs.gov/datacncl/

DHHS Data Council coordinates health data standards and privacy policy.

DHHS - Office of Civil Rights (OCR) - HIPAA
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

DHHS OCR has enforcement responsibilities for HIPAA. OCR's site provides links similar to ASPE and CMS administrative simplification sites.

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

FedStats is the official portal to federal agency statistical collections.

FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov/

FirstGov is the official portal to federal government sites.

Library of Congress - THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/

THOMAS provides a complete index and full text of enacted federal legislation as well as pending bills.

National Committee on Vital Health Statistics
http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/

NCVHS is an advisory body to DHHS, and was instrumental in drafting HIPAA regulations.

National Institutes of Health - HIPAA Privacy Rule and Research
http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/

NIH's site has an extensive collection of materials on the interaction between HIPAA and research.

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Computer Security Resource Center
http://csrc.nist.gov/

NIST CSRC provides a broad range of information on information security issues.

 

Last modified: 26-Mar-2006