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Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12
http://www.x12.org
(Follow X12N/TG2 for Insurance, Healthcare)
ASC X12 develops uniform standards for cross-industry electronic exchange of business information.

American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org/goto/hipaa
The ADA is a professional association of dentists. Visitors to this Web page can access ADA material preparation for HIPAA, presentations, and downloads.

Beacon Partners
http://www.hipaacomply.com
A commercial site featuring news, a timeline of important dates relating to HIPAA Security and Privacy Compliance, HIPAA FAQs, and legislation links.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
http://www.cms.gov/hipaa
An authoritative governmental site for HIPAA information containing explanations, acronyms, a glossary, publications, manuals, forums, and the latest news. CMS was formerly known as Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).

Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
http://www.disa.org
DISA is an association for the development of cross-industry electronic data interchange standards. Visitors to their Web site can access a newsroom with information on industry articles, resources including FAQs, and a bookstore.

Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP
http://www.dwt.com/practc/hc_ecom/hc_ecom.cfm
Davis, Wright, Tremaine is a legal firm specializing in healthcare. It contains a lawyer directory, HIPAA search, eHealth/HIPAA online resource center, and checklists towards compliance.

Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA)
http://www.hiaa.org/index.cfm
This site offers publications on healthcare issues.

HIPAA Designated Standard Maintenance Organizations (DSMO) Transaction Change Request System
http://www.hipaa-dsmo.org/crs
A Web site run by the Designated Standard Maintenance Organizations to focus on managing HIPAA standard change requests. Visitors can search for and view requested changes. This site also provides links to X12N Transaction and HL7 Attachment standards.

HIPAA Summit
http://www.hipaasummit.com
Billed as "The leading forum on healthcare, privacy, confidentiality, data security, and HIPAA compliance." This site lists seminars across the country on these topics and posts speaker presentations for downloading.

HIPAAdvisory (Phoenix Health Systems)
http://www.hipaadvisory.com
This is a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing company providing articles on HIPAA, news, HIPAA whitepapers, links, FAQs, and press releases.

Maryland Health Care Commission
http://www.mhcc.state.md.us/edi/hipaa/_hipaa.htm
This site offers HIPAA slide presentations and referrals.

North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA)
http://www.nchica.org
This site includes legislative links and resource links.

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa
HIPAA authority providing background, general information, technical assistance, news, and links to other relevant sites.

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov
HIPAA governmental site of the public advisory board to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. NCVHS offers live Internet broadcasts of meetings, letters to Secretary Thompson and Federal Register notes.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administrative Simplification
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/index.htm
A HIPAA governmental site with links to HHS, NCVHS, HHS Data Council, proposed rules, CMS Model Compliance Extension Plan, and Privacy Final Rule.

Washington Publishing Company
http://wpc-edi.com/default_40.asp
Go here for Transaction Implementation Guides and Codes. This site provides free downloads of HIPAA Implementation Guides.

WEDI Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP)
http://snip.wedi.org
Collaborative healthcare industry-wide process for implementing electronic standards. This Web site provides a forum for dialog among industry implementers for HIPAA standards, in addition to resources, work groups, and discussion groups.

Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)
http://www.wedi.org
Sponsors HIPAA work groups, provides glossary, regulation schedule, overview of legislation, and download for final Transaction Rule.