An Overview of Online and Print Resources Available to HIPAA ProfessionalsPresented by:

Jillian Harrington Kuruc, MHA, CPC, CCS-P

Manager of Product Development - Ingenix, Inc.

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Disclaimer

The presenter is in no way advising on the quality of the products shown in this presentation, nor are they

promoting any certain products over others. The purpose of the presentation is to show the wide range of products

available to HIPAA professionals, both free of charge, and available for purchase.

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Presentation Format

This is meant to be an interactive presentation

Please feel free to share with the group Helpful comments on sites we’re visiting Additional sites/publications ‘Your’ sites

Keep in mind – it’s not possible for one person to have visited every HIPAA resource

A collaborative effort will go a long way, and we’ll keep building upon this ‘list’ of resources to share with future audiences

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Agenda

The ‘Wide World of HIPAA’ Online Resources

‘Official’/Governmental HIPAA Workgroups/Covered Entities Professional Organizations Consulting Firms/Publishers/Vendors Miscellaneous

Print Resources ‘Official’/Governmental Freebies For purchase

Wrap-up/Questions and Answers

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“Wide World of HIPAA”

HIPAA is BIG BUSINESS

Google Search for ‘HIPAA’ 2,020,000 hits

Google Search for ‘HIPAA Resources’ 620,000 hits 10+ ‘Sponsored Links’

How do you sort it out? What’s official, and what’s opinion? Let’s take a look…

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Online Resources

Vast amount of information on HIPAA can be found on the Internet

Four main source categories “Official” or Governmental HIPAA Workgroups Professional Organizations Consulting Firms

Miscellaneous category

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“Official”/Governmental Resources

Federal Register Access – All Regulatory Information http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Department of Health and Human Services - General http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/index.shtml

CMS – General http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/default.asp?

Office of Civil Rights – Privacy http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

Transactions and Code Sets https://htct.hhs.gov/index.jsp

CMS ASET http://www.wpc-edi.com/hipaa/HIPAA_40.asp

Implementation Guides

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“Official”/Governmental ResourcesAdditional Helpful Sites

Health Level Seven http://www.hl7.org/

National Uniform Claim Committee http://www.nucc.org/

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs http://www.ncpdp.org/

HIPAA Information from the NIH http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_02.asp

Tricare http://www.tricare.osd.mil/hipaa/

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Additional “Official” Sites

American National Standards Institute http://web.ansi.org/

Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange http://www.wedi.org/snip/

HCPCS Site (CMS) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/hcpcs/

ICD Sites CDC – National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm CMS

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/icd9code.asp

CPT Site (AMA) http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3113.html

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HIPAA Workgroups

North Carolina http://www.nchica.org/

Pennsylvania http://www.e-paalliance.org/html/

Minnesota http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/business_partners/docum

ents/pub/DHS_id_000091.hcsp New York

http://www.oft.state.ny.us/hipaa/ Kansas

http://www.hark.info/ North Dakota Pharmaceutical Association

http://www.hipaa-for-pharmacy.com/

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HIPAA Workgroups/Covered Entities

Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission http://www.ehnac.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org/

University of California http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/hipaa/welcome.html

University of Kansas http://www.kumc.edu/hipaa/

Medical College of Ohio http://www.mco.edu/research/hipaa.html#HIPAA

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Professional Organizations

International Association of Privacy Officials http://www.privacyassociation.org/index.html

American Health Information Management Association http://www.ahima.org/

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society http://www.himss.org

College of Healthcare Information Management Executives http://www.cio-chime.org/

American Medical Informatics Society http://www.amia.org/

Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance http://www.jhita.org/

Information Systems Security Association http://www.issa.org/

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Professional Organizations

Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions http://www.afehct.org/

Rx2000 Institute – HIPAA Information http://www.rx2000.org/KnowledgeCenter/hipaa/hipaa.htm

Association of American Medical Colleges http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/hipaa/

American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4234.html

American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/hipaa.xml

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists http://www.acog.org/from_home/departments/category.cfm?recno=19&bull

etin=1764 Pharmacist.com – APhA & NABP

http://www.pharmacist.com/hipaa.cfm

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Professional Organizations

American Academy of Professional Coders http://www.aapc.com/

Medical Group Management Association http://www.mgma.com/hipaa.cfm

American Health Lawyers Association http://www.healthlawyers.org/

Health Care Compliance Association http://www.hcca-info.org/

Healthcare Financial Management Association http://www.hfma.org/

American College of Healthcare Executives http://www.ache.org/

American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management http://www.aaham.org/

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Consulting Firms/Publishing Companies/ Vendors

Phoenix Health Systems http://www.hipaadvisory.com/

Claredi http://www.claredi.com/

Edifecs https://www.hipaadesk.com/index.jsp

HCPro http://www.hcpro.com/resource.cfm?topic=M2_HIM_HIP

Healthcare Intelligence Network http://www.hin.com/hipaadesktop.html

Beacon Partners http://www.hipaacomply.com/

ProxyMed http://www.proxymed.com/hipaa/default.asp

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Consulting Firms/Publishing Companies/ Vendors

http://www.meethipaa.com/training.html http://infosolutions.mckesson.com/ (Choose HIPAA option, right side

of screen) http://www.smed.com/hipaa/index.php http://www.hipaacomplete.com/ http://www.hipaaacademy.net/ http://www.hipaarx.net/ http://www.hipaa-kit.com/ http://www.hipaaclickandcomply.com/ http://www.cert.org/octave/ http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/ontopic/hipaa/hcionhipaa.htm http://www.hipaa.org/ http://www.aishealth.com/Compliance/HIPAAResource.html http://www.hipaacomply.com/ http://hipaa.rdacorp.com/index.asp http://www.principlelogic.com/hipaa.html

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Miscellaneous

Weblog for HIPAA?? Sure! http://hipaablog.blogspot.com/

HealthHIPPO’s HIPAA Page http://insurance.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2

F%2Fhippo.findlaw.com%2Fhipaa.html

Listservs Too many to list… Good ones

HHS Listservs – http://list.nih.gov WEDI/SNIP - http://www.wedi.org/snip/ HIPAALive - http://www.hipaadvisory.com/live/ AHIMA CoP forums - https://www.ahimanet.org/COP/Personal

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Print Resources

Many, many options

Focus on ‘freebies’, but also cover briefly publishing companies and vendors

“Official”/Governmental Freebies For purchase

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“Official”/Governmental Print Resources

Regulations – available through the Government Printing Office http://bookstore.gpo.gov/

Guidance documents - OCR CMS Educational Material

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/education/default.asp#transactions

Implementation Guides- Washington Publishing Company http://www.wpc-edi.com/hipaa/HIPAA_40.asp

National Institute of Standards and Technology http://csrc.nist.gov/ http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/DRAFT-sp800-66.pdf

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“Freebies”

HIPAA Whitepapers http://www.hipaadvisory.com/action/whitepapers.htm http://www.trusecure.com/offer/k0006/ http://www.hin.com/library/registersfs.html http://www.ciber.com/downloads/whitepapers/

Website downloads (governmental, etc) Magazines

Advance for HIM http://health-information.advanceweb.com/main.aspx

Advance for Health Information Executives http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/

For The Record http://www.fortherecordmag.com/

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For Purchase

Healthcare Intelligence Network http://store.hin.com/

Amazon.com – search on HIPAA http://www.amazon.com

Phoenix Health Systems http://www.hipaadvisory.com/wares/

Decision Health http://www.decisionhealth.com/index.html

American Medical Association http://www.amapress.com

Ingenix, Inc. http://www.ingenixonline.com

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For Purchase

AIS Health http://www.aishealth.com/Catalog/MarketplaceCompliance.html

HCPro http://www.hcpro.com/resource.cfm?topic=M2_HIM_HIP

Medical Management Institute http://www.codingbooks.com/osb/showitem.cfm/Category/16

AHIMA http://imis.ahima.org/orders/productByCategory.cfm?t=6

eBay??? http://www.ebay.com

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Wrap-up

Obviously, number of HIPAA resources available is incredible!

Be wary – check before you buy Don’t believe everything you read on the internet or in a

listserv

What resources do you like to use??

An Overview of Online and Print Resources Available to HIPAA ProfessionalsPresented by:

Jillian Harrington Kuruc, MHA, CPC, CCS-P

Manager of Product Development - Ingenix, Inc.