LEADING SITES - Public Policy Issues Relevant to Medical Informatics

Legislation Affecting the Internet

From the Center for Democracy & Technology

CHIP Updates on Medical Records Confidentiality and E-Health Privacy

Updates issued by Washington Health Advocates to the Coalition on Healthcare Information Policy (CHIP), a joint initiative of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and the Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM).

Joint Healthcare Information Technology Association

The Web site of a collaborative affiliation of five leading health information technology associations - AMIA, AHIMA, CHIM, CHIM, and HIMSS - one of the principle programs of which is monitoring policy developments in four areas - HIPAA, medical errors, e-health, and telemedicine.

Electronic Privacy Information Center - Medical Record Privacy

From a proponent of strong privacy protections, the EPIC page on medical records privacy contains occasional updates on current news, but has drawn together one of the better collections of historical documents relating to the issue.

Yahoo! News - Medical Records and Patient Privacy

Though not following the issue on a daily basis, this Yahoo special section contains a nice collection of articles from a variety of sources over time that discuss medical records privacy issues. The page also provides links to some primary documents and to a number of organizations with strong privacy interests.

HIM - The Health Information Management Supersite - HIPAA Pro-Resources

A commercial site that contains a section on HIPAA providing basic background information, glossary, links to other sites, and a weekly newsletter.

Tech Law Journal

A good summary of the legislative activity on medical records confidentiality in the U.S. Congress throughout the 106th Congress with links to the full texts of all bills introduced along with statements from various members of Congress.