HIPAA Survival Guide

HITSP - Excellent Summary and Key Points from the Implementation Workgroup
from Life as a Healthcare CIO by John Halamka

Yesterday I spent the day in Washington with the HIT Standards Committee's Implementation Workgroup . The online forum to comment about standards adoption and implementation is now available.

The fir...st article was posted by Aneesh Chopra, the US CTO. The second, my summary
of the standards work thus far, will be posted this morning. Additional
articles will be posted by others members of the HIT Standards
Committee in the next week.

The entire post can be viewed at http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/10/implementation-workgroup-testimony.htmlRead More

The resources we're providing below are "top shelf" HITECH/HIPAA sites. Most are sites we use on a regular basis. Some we've hardly visited, but we feel may be of interest to you, our regular HSG reader. Only resources that have stood the test of time are listed. What do we mean by that? These are resources that have s...hown some longevity and that are properly maintained (e.g. few, if any, broken links and relevant content that ranks high vis-a-vis update frequency). Put plainly, these are "the cream of the crop."

Also, these resources often link to other valuable resources and this allows an interested reader to simply follow the links in order to acquire a fundamental understanding of the legal issues presented by the statutes and corresponding regulations. Some of these sites have a particular normative or legislative bent to their content. By linking to such sites we neither support nor reject their perspectives. It is simply indicative of our core belief that it is better to be well informed regarding forces that may be shaping the HITECH/HIPAA agenda. http://www.hipaasurvivalguide.com/resources/hipaa-resources.phpRead More