HIPAA Resources on the WEB

CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid)
Administrative Simplification TCS (Transaction and Code Sets)

This is the Federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid which list important details
on the transactions and code sets which must be followed by October 16, 2003.
 http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/default.asp

Office of Civil Rights: Government enforcement arm of HIPAA and 
chief arbiter of privacy regulations.  Excellent source for sample 
questions and answers.
www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

WEDI or Workgroup on Electronic Intechange: The standards organization
behind the ANSIX12 HIPAA transaction sets.  
www.wedi.org

AFEHCT: The Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions.
www.afehct.org

CPRI Toolkit: Managing Information Privacy and Security in Healthcare, Version 5

 http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_cpriToolkit.asp?faid=78&tid=4

Medical Informatics and Standards

HIMSS: Health Information Management Systems Society

Hl7-V3 (leading ANSI-accredited medical informatics standards organization)

Connecting for Health under the Markle Foundation :www.connectingforhealth.org

eHealth Initiative: www.ehealthinitiative.org

calinx (Ca. based voluntary electronic health information standard setting organization)

Health On the Net (HON) HONcode Principles(standard setting organization, good housekeeping seal)

Internet Healthcare Coalition: Organization of leading health organizations and companies drafted comprehensive "voluntary" Internet health ethics policy. 

HI-Ethics: Coalition of business to consumer health dotcoms, drafted "voluntary" policy statement on Internet and website ethics.