Informatics Resources

Health Privacy Project

The Health Privacy Project was founded in 1997 to "raise 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."

Highlight: Extensive coverage of medical privacy stories.

Special Coverage: Data Security Breaches

Stay informed with Computerworld's ongoing special coverage of data breaches, including unauthorized released of protected health information.

Health and Human Services' Administrative Simplification Site

Information concerning the HIPAA rules and the rulemaking process.

Highlight: Subscribe to the HIPAA-REGS List to receive E-mail notification when HIPAA-related updates are posted or published.

Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights

The website of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which is dedicated to ensuring that all citizens have equal access to the programs and services of the Department of Health and Human Services and the departmental component responsible for implementing and enforcing the HIPAA Privacy Rules.

American Medical Association

News and information for patients, physicians, medical students, and other health professionals, from "the nation's leader in promoting professionalism in medicine and setting standards for medical education, practice, and ethics."

Highlight: Extensive HIPAA information.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

Resources for Health Information Management professionals, dedicated to the proposition that quality healthcare requires quality information.