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	FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While the HIPAA regulations do, in fact, limit the ability of many knowledgeable sources to discuss medical information, in the seven months since the HIPAA compliance deadline passed, it has become increasingly clear that the complex rule is being used to prevent the disclosure of newsworthy information even where it does not apply.
		HIPAA is an acronym that stands for the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996." HIPAA's medical privacy regulations govern the use and release of a patient's personal health information, also known as "protected health information" by "covered entities." The statute imposes serious criminal restrictions on dissemination of certain protected health information.
		HIPAA does not extend, for example, to police incident reports, fire incident reports, court records, records of agencies that do not provide healthcare or insure healthcare, autopsy or any records which an individual has authorized to be disclosed.
	www.rtnda.org /foi/hipaafaq.shtml (1747 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions about Portability of Health Coverage and HIPAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under HIPAA any period of time that you are receiving COBRA continuation coverage is counted as previous health coverage as long as the coverage occurred without a break in coverage of 63 days or more.
		Under HIPAA, an employee's former group health plan and any insurance company or HMO providing such coverage is required to provide the employee with a statement of prior health coverage, commonly referred to as a certificate of creditable coverage.
		Under HIPAA, the only preexisting conditions that may be excluded under a preexisting condition exclusion are those for which medical advice, diagnosis, care or treatment was recommended or received within the 6-month period ending on your enrollment date.
	www.dol.gov /ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_hipaa.html (3675 words)

	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HIPAA is the acronym of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
		The HIPAA Code Set Regulations establish a uniform standard of data elements used to document reasons why patients are seen and the procedures performed during health care encounters.
		HIPAA security regulations were implemented on April 21, 2005 for all but small health plans (who must comply by April 20, 2006).
	www.dshs.state.tx.us /hipaa/default.shtm (768 words)

	HIPAA Basics: Medical Privacy in the Electronic Age
		HIPAA sets the standard for privacy in the electronic age where health industry, government, and public interests often prevail over the patient's desire for confidentiality.
		HIPAA says you can be charged a “reasonable, cost-based fee.” This means you can be charged for supplies and staff time for copying your records.
		HIPAA requires that "hybrid" entities such as self-insured employers erect "firewalls" between the portion of the company that handles the health claims and the portion that does not.
	www.privacyrights.org /fs/fs8a-hipaa.htm (9017 words)

	HIPAA: Your rights to health insurance portability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Before HIPAA was enacted, if you switched to a new group health plan, the new insurer could consider your diabetes a pre-existing condition and refuse to cover treatment.
		HIPAA's rules apply to every employer group health plan that has at least two participants who are current employees, including companies that are self-insured.
		HIPAA also allows employers or health plans to impose a waiting period, generally one to three months, before you become eligible to join the group health plan of a new employer.
	info.insure.com /health/hipaa.html (1584 words)

	New HIPAA Home Page
		The HIPAA Security Rule deadline is April 20, 2005.
		HIPAA is the single most significant Federal legislation affecting the health care industry since the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965.
		In order to effectively implement the HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions, the Governor's Office has organized a statewide project composed of state agencies that may be affected by its requirements.
	hipaa.ohio.gov (254 words)

	Acusis Medical Transcription Services- HIPAA Overview
		This law ensures the continuity of healthcare coverage for individuals changing jobs and includes a provision that impacts on the management of heath information; seeks to simplify the administration of health insurance; and aims to combat waste, fraud and abuse in health insurance and healthcare.
		HIPAA security compliance rules are also enforced in the development and installation of all Acusis applications.
		We seek input from HIPAA consultants to ensure current compliance and to maintain superior confidentiality of patient records.
	www.acusis.com /AP0410/HIPAA/HIPAA.asp (308 words)

	HIPAA: Protecting Your Right to Health Insurance
		HIPAA is a federal law that gives you and your family certain protections when you are changing from one group health plan to another or from a group plan to an individual insurance plan.
		HIPAA requires group health plans to allow you and your family to enroll without having to wait until the plan's regular enrollment period.
		HIPAA provides a number of needed protections for people who are changing their health insurance coverage.
	www.aarp.org /health/insurance/private/a2003-05-02-hippa.html (1162 words)

	HIPAA
		HIPAA applies to “covered entities.” A covered entity is a health care provider, a health care clearinghouse and a health plan.
		As HIPAA specifically excludes life insurance, disability insurance and annuities, some carriers have taken the position that authorizations associated with these lines of insurance do not have to be HIPAA-compliant.
		HIPAA may be amended; however, as of April of 2003, there are no proposed changes pending.
	www.thompsonagency.net /hipaa_2003.htm (1105 words)

	HIPAA
		HIPAA also seeks uniformity in the privacy practices of HIPAA covered-entities and assurances of certain rights that individuals enjoy relative to their medical records.
		While HIPAA’s statutory provisions were passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1996, regulations implementing the law came much later and at staggered times.
		HIPAA is complex, technical, and governed in large measure by its own definitions and terms of art.
	www.iowamedical.org /ola/hipaa.htm (234 words)

	HIPAA Resources -- American Academy of Family Physicians
		Whether you are just beginning your HIPAA journey, looking for specific implementation tools, or are in search of expert guidance for a particular component of the standards, we want to help you make progress.
		The Administrative Simplification portions of the Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPAA) are actually composed of several sets of standards (e.g., transactions and code sets, privacy, security, and national identifiers) developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the behest of Congress, which passed the HIPAA legislation in 1996.
		The goals of the standards are to simplify the administration of health insurance claims and lower costs, give patients more control and access to their health care information, and protect individually identifiable medical information from real or potential threats of loss or disclosure.
	www.aafp.org /hipaa.xml (342 words)

	HIPAA Overview
		HIPAA administrative simplification also requires the protection of the privacy of personal health information and the establishment of security requirements to protect that information.
		HIPAA calls for severe penalties for noncompliance, including: civil fines up to $25K for violations per standard in a calendar year, and criminal fines up to $250K and/or imprisonment up to 10 years for knowingly misusing individually identifiable health information.
		HIPAA's "Administrative Simplification" provision is composed of four parts, each of which have generated a variety of "rules" and "standards." Many of the rules and standards are still in the "proposed" (by DHHS) stage; however, most are expected to become "final" rules within the year 2000.
	www.nd.gov /hipaa/overview (1047 words)

	HIPAA
		HIPAA requires that the hospital, and investigators using hospital records, track any individually identified information that is released for research when waivers of authorization are granted.
		If a subject revokes authorization to use his or her protected information, HIPAA permits the researcher to withdraw them from the study, including any treatment component (subject of course, to any other professional standards that would prompt their continuation, such as the medical need for them to taper off a study drug).
		HIPAA requires the hospital to enter into a specific form of agreement with any "business associate" before protected health information is disclosed to it.
	www.childrenshospital.org /cfapps/hipaa_train/Training.cfm?p=1 (4206 words)

	HIPAA
		A covered entity may use or disclose decedents' PHI to a researcher if the researcher represents that the use/disclosure is ought solely for research on the PHI of the decedents; provides documentation of death upon request; and represents that the requested PHI is necessary for the research purposes.
		You may have HIPAA responsibilities as a licensed health care provider, and the University may be held vicariously liable if you violate HIPAA or commit malpractice.
		They assume HIPAA responsibilities only as a condition of obtaining data after April 14, 2003, by means of promises made in HIPAA authorizations that subjects sign, accepting conditions imposed by an IRB that approves a waiver of authorization, or through obligations, otherwise undertaken such as in a Data Use Agreement.
	vpf-web.harvard.edu /osr/support/sup_tra_regs_hipaa_piovr.shtml (3390 words)

	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HIPAA restrictions on researchers have affected their ability to perform retrospective, chart-based research as well as their ability to prospectively evaluate patients by contacting them for follow-up.
		A study from the University of Michigan demonstrated that implementation of the HIPAA Privacy rule resulted in a drop from 96% to 34% in the proportion of follow-up surveys completed by study patients being followed after a heart attack.
		Another study, detailing the effects of HIPAA on recruitment for a study on cancer prevention, demonstrated that HIPAA-mandated changes led to a 73% decrease in patient accrual, a tripling of time spent recruiting patients, and a tripling of mean recruitment costs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HIPAA (3006 words)

	FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HIPAA requires providers to tell patients of certain disclosures of their information without their authorization.
		HIPAA is the law that brought us health care reform by allowing employees to maintain insurance coverage between jobs, prohibiting denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, and creating medical savings accounts.
		HIPAA does not affect the need for a consent for treatment, if that is warranted for the delivery of those health care services.
	hipaa.bsd.uchicago.edu /faq.html (3281 words)

	HIPAA , HIPAA compliance and HIPAA security news from Health Data Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Complying with HIPAA is challenging because this regulation affects so many areas, including standards for transactions, rules for data privacy/security, standards for clinical records and more.
		The HIPAA claims attachments standards, if implemented in their proposed form, would bring no return on investment to hospitals, according to the American...
		With HIPAA privacy and security rule deadlines long past and enforcement measures weak, commitments by provider and payer organizations to protect patient information have slipped in the past year.
	www.healthdatamanagement.com /html/hipaa/HIPAA.cfm (363 words)

	iWay HIPAA eBusiness Adapter
		HIPAA directs the Secretary to adopt standards for transactions to enable health information to be exchanged electronically and to adopt specifications for implementing each standard.
		This iWay HIPAA Adapter is based on the October 1998 ASC X12 standards, referred to as Version 4, Release 1, Sub-release 0, (004010).
		The iWay HIPAA Adapter is used in conjunction with application servers, message brokers, and other iWay Adapters (e.g CICS, VSAM, SAP R/3, or MUMPS) to integrate HIPAA transactions with internal applications using standard formatted XML.
	www.iwaysoftware.com /products/adapters/hipaa.html (717 words)

	What is HIPAA? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
		HIPAA Title II includes an administrative simplification section which deals with the standardization of healthcare-related information systems.
		HIPAA establishes mandatory regulations that require extensive changes to the way that health providers conduct business.
		HIPAA seeks to establish standardized mechanisms for electronic data interchange (EDI), security, and confidentiality of all healthcare-related data.
	searchcio.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci862786,00.html (292 words)

	Department of Medical Assistance Services
		HIPAA compliance requires an integrated and comprehensive approach that includes assessing risks and developing, documenting, implementing and maintaining appropriate security measures to keep risk at an acceptable level.
		There is no "quick fix" for HIPAA compliance: it requires a sustained and diligent approach to a variety of administrative and technical measures.
		DMAS implemented its HIPAA contingency plan on September 16, 2003 and as permitted by the federal government continues to permit non-HIPAA compliant Medicaid transactions past the October 16, 2003 deadline.
	www.dmas.virginia.gov /hpa-home.htm (1774 words)

	ADHS: Division of Information Technology Services: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
		The Title II provisions of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification regulations, mandate national privacy standards for the creation, use, disclosure, and retention of patient identifiable health information; the standardization of electronic transactions and codes related to health care payment activities; data security and integrity requirements for the maintenance and transmission of patient information.
		HIPAA is a Federal Mandate and The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under the Department of Health and Human Services is the oversight authority for all HIPAA Privacy Matters.
		HIPAA questions or complaints regarding personal matters should be discussed with your provider, health plan or check OCR’s or CMS’s web page for further information.
	www.azdhs.gov /its/hipaa (878 words)

	HIPAA Privacy Rule and Public Health Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services*
		The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was adopted to ensure health insurance coverage after leaving an employer and also to provide standards for facilitating health-care--related electronic transactions.
		The fact that these activities are conducted in pursuit of a public health goal (e.g., vaccinating children or screening a targeted population for sexually transmitted diseases) does not preclude the public health authority from being a covered entity.
		A covered entity that is also a public health authority may use, as well as disclose, PHI for public health purposes to the same extent it would be permitted to disclose the PHI as a public health authority.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/m2e411a1.htm (5939 words)

	State of Iowa HIPAA Project Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996.
		The act specifies the requirements for covered entities to provide notice of privacy policies and procedures to patients, obtain consent and authorization for use of information; explain under what circumstances PHI can be used without consent or prior authorization; and tell patients how to access, inspect, copy and amend their own medical records.
		Compliance with the HIPAA security rules became effective April 21, 2005.
	www.state.ia.us /government/hipaa (326 words)

	University of California - HIPAA
		In May 2002, the Board of Regents designated the University of California as a HIPAA hybrid covered entity and determined that UC would be a Single Health Care Component for the purposes of complying with the HIPAA Rule.
		All of the entities at UC covered by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules — medical centers, medical clinics, health care providers, health plans, student health centers — are a single entity for purposes of compliance with HIPAA.
		The HIPAA Security Rule, effective April 20, 2005, requires that workforce members adhere to controls and safeguards to: (1) ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of confidential information; and (2) detect and prevent reasonably anticipated errors and threats due to malicious or criminal actions, system failure, natural disasters and employee or user error.
	www.universityofcalifornia.edu /hipaa (509 words)

	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
		In adopting the Act, Congress determined that the provisions of HIPAA would preempt any contrary state law unless the state law is more stringent than the related provision of HIPAA or unless a specific exception applies.
		It is intended to reflect the HIPAA regulations and Illinois laws in effect as of March 5, 2003.
		Due to the complexity of HIPAA compliance and the variety of factual situations in which HIPAA may be implicated, readers are urged to consult with their attorneys in order to develop comprehensive and fact specific HIPAA compliance strategies.
	www.illinois.gov /hipaa (419 words)

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