Law Students

The Center For Democracy & Technology is a great resource for health privacy related information. Here is how they describe their Health Privacy Project:

CDT?s Health Privacy Project will take on key policy questions, including: the proper role of notice and consent, the right of patients to access their own health records in electronic formats, identification and authentication, secondary uses, and enforcement mechanisms. It will address both the traditional exchange of records among providers and payers, as well as new consumer access services and Personal Health Records.

You can find an excellent summary of the modifications to HIPAA mandated by the HITECH Act here. It is one of the more thorough summaries we have found to date, with Appendix A containing a calendar of HITECH/HIPAA due dates and effective dates.

As a HIPAA Lawyer I attempt to provide as much useful, high quality, and freely available information to our clients and prospectice clients as possible The principal methods for doing so is this blog and our FREE HITECH/HIPAA Compliance Newsletter.