Useful HIPAA Links and Resources on the Web

AAHP - American Association of Health Plans
AAMC - American Association of Medical Colleges
ASCO - American Society of Clinical Oncology
AFECHT - Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions is dedicated to supporting the use of EDI to improve and reduce the costs of health care. AFEHCT addresses both technical and policy issues to meet the challenges of health care EDI and is recognized as a leader by government health care and legislative organizations.
AHA - American Hospitals Association website has good coverage on HIPAA. The AHA represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members form the AHA. Through representation and advocacy activities, AHA ensures that members' perspectives and needs are heard and addressed in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters.
AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association is a professional association that represents more than 40,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry. They have a HIPAA pages with articles from the Journal of AHIMA, as well as other HIPAA information.
AHLA - American Health Lawyers Association provides resources to address the issues facing its active members who practice in law firms, government, in-house settings and academia and who represent the entire spectrum of the health industry: physicians, hospitals and health systems, health maintenance organizations, health insurers, managed care companies, nursing facilities, home care providers, and consumers.
AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care. They have a page on their site devoted to Public Policy and Legislation updates.
CHIM - Center for Healthcare Information Management the association driving strategic information management and technology in the health industry
CHIME - the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives serving the professional needs of healthcare's CIOs
CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments), and several other health-related programs.
DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services website containing information specifically on the Administrative Simplification section of HIPAA.
DHHS Data Council - The HHS Data Council coordinates all health and non-health data collection and analysis activities of the Department of Health and Human Services, including an integrated data collection strategy, coordination of health data standards and health information and privacy policy activities. The Secretary has placed the Data Council in charge of the implementation of the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
EHNAC - The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is an independent, not-for-profit accrediting body. It is comprised of an Executive Director and eleven (11) industry and consumer representatives from health care transaction processors, private & government payers or insurers, self insured plans, health care providers, appropriate trade associations, consumer organizations and the general public. EHNAC Accreditation provides an independent peer evaluation of an organization’s ability to perform at certain industry-established criteria. The process allows companies to review their existing performance levels and to bring those levels into accordance with industry-established criteria with the help of the accrediting body and industry mentors.
Forum on Privacy and Security in Healthcare - a HOST-affiliated, industry group working with the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a government agency, to provide a wide-based industry view on security issues confronting healthcare.
HCCA - The Health Care Compliance Association is the only national, nonprofit organization solely dedicated to improving the quality of health care compliance.  Its mission is to provide a collaborative forum promoting integrity and ethical behavior through the development of comprehensive compliance programs throughout the entire health care industry. 
HCCO - HIPAA Conformance Certification Organization HCCO is a nonprofit organization serving the healthcare community with practical guidelines for complying with HIPAA, and with accreditation standards and services. HCCO is open to any individual, covered entity, vendor or organization that would like to be involved in developing cohesive strategies for HIPAA compliance implementations. We believe that all cost-effective and successful compliance strategies will require a common approach to implementation among communities of vendors and providers. Our members have come together in a spirit of cooperation to compile implementation guidelines that help ensure business continuity among trading partners.
HealthKey.org - a Coalition of Non-profit Healthcare Organizations, Drives Implementation of HIPAA eHealth Security Standards.
Health Privacy Project - A part of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at the Georgetown University Medical Center, the HPP is dedicated to raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level.
HFMA - Healthcare Financial Management Association Includes HIPAA Resources:  Readiness Survey Results, Risk Factor Assessment Tool (member benefit), status report, seminars, audio teleconferences, books, audiotapes, articles and technical documents and >annotated links.
HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society a not-for-profit organization representing information and management systems professionals in healthcare, serving our members, our customers, and our industry by providing leadership, education, and networking.
HIPAA GIVES - Government Information Value Exchange for States (GIVES) is a collaborative state government health care focus group resulting in the sharing of information through a clearinghouse highway and providing a forum for discussing and resolving issues in meeting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation.
HIPAA LINKS - a web site that contains just links to other sites that address HIPAA.
JHITA - Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA) formed by AHIMA, AMIA, CHIM, CHIME and HIMSS with the intent of providing advocacy activities that focus on identifying issues having the broadest impact on the Alliance membership. The Alliance monitors national legislative and regulatory activities and reports on those activities to the Alliance membership. Current issues of focus include: medical records confidentiality and HIPAA administrative simplification rule making.
NASMHPD - National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) organizes to reflect and advocate for the collective interests of State Mental Health Authorities and their directors at the national level.
NCHICA - North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance NCHICA is working to improve healthcare through information technology and secure communications. Leading providers, payers, corporate partners, professional associations, and government agencies have joined forces in this nonprofit consortium to steer the direction of and facilitate innovative pilot projects and focused programs.
NCVHS - National Committee on Vital Health Statistics. A public advisory body to the Secretary of HHS in the area of health data and statistics. The Committee provides advice and assistance to the Department and serves as a forum for interaction with interested private sector groups on a variety of key health data issues including health statistics, electronic interchange of health care information, privacy and security of electronic information and population-based public health.
NIST - National Institute of Standards & Technology. An agency of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration, this web page provides links to publications addressing security in information technology.
NUCC - The National Uniform Claim Committee. The NUCC was formally named in the administrative simplification section of the HIPAA of 1996 as one of the organizations to be consulted by the American National Standards Institute's accredited SDOs and the Secretary of HHS as they develop, adopt, or modify national standards for health care transactions. As such, the NUCC is intended to have an authoritative voice regarding national standard content and data definitions for non-institutional health care claims in the United States.
OCR - The Office for Civil Rights is the enforcement agent for the Privacy regulations addressed by HIPAA Administrative Simplification. Included in this website are guidelines on HIPAA Privacy, instructions and forms for reporting breaches of privacy and other health information privacy information.
POA - Privacy Officers Association
WEDI -  Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. Their goal is to  improve health care through Electronic Commerce and to foster widespread support for the adoption of electronic commerce within health care. 
WEDI/SNIP is the Strategic National Implementation Process for Complying with the Administrative Simplification Provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
WPC - Washington Publishing Company (WPC) specializes in managing and distributing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) information, primarily in the form of documentation for organizations that develop, maintain, and implement EDI standards.
State Government and State-Specific HIPAA Sites

State Medicaid Sites