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Overview

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

The privacy provisions of the federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), apply to health information created or maintained by health care providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, health plans, and health care clearinghouses.

Note: HIPAA privacy standards became effective in April 2003 and the HIPAA security standards will go into effect April 21, 2005.

EDUCAUSE has identified links concerning HIPAA that may be useful to the higher education community. Many of these links have been contributed by EDUCAUSE members. If you have additional resources you would like to include on this page, send the information to: contribute@educause.edu

Federal Government Resources

HIPAA Security Standards
Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule. February 20, 2003.

HIPAA Privacy Standards
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information; Final Rule. August 14, 2002.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
Public Law 104-191, passed by the 104th Congress

Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA
The privacy provisions of the federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), apply to health information created or maintained by health care providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, health plans, and health care clearinghouses.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is responsible for implementing various unrelated provisions of HIPAA. This page contains a directory of CMS's business activities with regard to HIPAA.
Press Release - CMS Named to Enforce HIPAA Transaction and Code Set Standards 10/15/02

Non-governmental Organizations Resources

Expert HIPAA Compliance Solutions
This site offers a HIPAA compliance discussion area, news updates, a weekly newsletter, links to resources, readiness checklists, and information for health care providers and employers.

Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy
Association of American Medical Colleges' Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy. This site offers practical strategies for addressing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

HIPAA.ORG
A collection of miscellaneous HIPAA links. Categories include laws, identifiers, transactions, enforcement, security, privacy, codes and discussion groups.

HIPAAcomply
This site includes information on HIPAA news, timeline, discussion lists, events, legislation and technology.

HIPAAdvisory
This site includes information regarding HIPAA regulations, news updates, white papers, discussion lists and FAQs.

Implementation Guides Adopted for use under HIPAA
Washington Publishing Company (WPC) specializes in managing and distributing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) information, primarily in the form of documentation for organizations that develop, maintain, and implement EDI standards.

InfoShare HIPAA Information
InfoShare is concerned primarily with the research implications of the privacy regulations.

ReadyforHIPAA.com
The ReadyforHIPAA.com web site is intended primarily for IT professionals in search of information and resources on the issues involved with complying with HIPAA regulations.

Strategic National Implementation Process
HIPAA resources include transactions code sets and standards and HIPAA vendor solutions

Universities and HIPAA


Publications (24)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about HIPAA.

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
ERB1116
11/08/2011 1,285
 
CSD5876
03/17/2010 3,135
 
CSD5741
09/30/2009 96
 
ERM0653
01/01/2006 23,942
 
ERB0922
11/03/2009 1,468
 
CSD5578
12/04/2008 658
 
ERB0808
04/15/2008 2,629
 
ERS0903
03/11/2009 2,333
 
ERM0362
01/01/2003 15,854
 
CSD4917
01/01/2007 1,729
 
CSD4940
01/01/2007 1,878
 
EPS248
01/01/2004 1,753
 
ERB0307
04/01/2003 8,210
 
CSD4973
06/15/2007 1,894
 
CSD4978
06/13/2007 2,400
 
CSD5096
08/31/2007 3,232
 
CSD5128
01/28/2010 3,179
 
CSD3065
01/01/2004 8,739
 
ERB0414
07/06/2004 6,159
 
ERM0159
01/01/2001 4,725
 
ERB0425
12/07/2004 5,146
 
NET0301
01/01/2005 4,552
 
CSD3784
01/01/2005 3,080
 
CSD3247
01/01/2003 3,113
 

Presentations (19)

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Item ID Title Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
LIVE1118
06/29/2011 289
 
NC11_221821
03/30/2011 170
 
MARC12_237302
01/11/2012 194
 
E092_179694
11/05/2009 1,107
 
NC09_48316
03/10/2009 674
 
SEC0308
01/01/2003 10,643
 
SEC07074
04/11/2007 1,871
 
EDU0243
01/01/2002 6,025
 
CMR0405
01/01/2004 5,547
 
EDU0263
01/01/2002 5,682
 
MAC0422
01/01/2004 5,648
 
SER0408
01/01/2004 4,819
 
LIVE0524
01/01/2005 2,738
 
NET0013
01/01/2001 8,005
 
SEC0404
01/01/2004 4,225
 
EAF0507
02/10/2005 3,229
 
EAF0515
02/10/2005 3,074
 
EAF0516
02/10/2005 3,078
 
EAF0514
02/10/2005 2,886
 

Policies (5)

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
CSD4456
Policies and Procedures
Community Contributions
01/01/2006 2,105
 
CSD3639
Community Contributions
01/01/2004 2,618
 
CSD3640
Community Contributions
01/01/2004 2,437
 
CSD3641
Community Contributions
01/01/2004 2,618
 
CSD3886
Policies and Procedures
Community
12/13/2011 3,501
 

Podcasts (1)

Name Views Post datesort icon
E2005 Podcast: Electronic Collaboration with Academic Medical Centers
  Play | Show Notes | Download (11.94 MB audio/mpeg)
3,266 02/13/2006
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