Privacy Archive

• Hospital Highlights: HHS Releases Final HIPAA Enforcement Rule (2/24/06) (Members Only)
• Final HIPAA Enforcement Rule (2/16/06)
• Updated NEMA Business Associate Sample Contract Language (November 2004)
• GAO report on First Year Experiences under the Federal Privacy Rule (September 2004)
• First criminal conviction for HIPAA privacy violation (8/19/04)
• AHA Annual Meeting Paper: Reducing Regulatory Burdens (May 2004)
• Proposals to Lessen Paperwork Burden of the HIPAA Accounting for Disclosures Requirement (6/13/03)
• HIPAA Enforcement Rule - Part 1 (4/17/03)
• Highlights for Hospitals - HHS Issues Enforcement Rule for HIPAA Regulations (4/16/03) (Members Only)
• Patient Authorization to Disclosure PHI: A Checklist of Elements Required for HIPAA Compliance (05/09/03)
• HIPAA Privacy Standards - An executive briefing for CEOs and Other Health Care Leaders (January 2003) (Members Only)
• American Cancer Society obtains clarification about application of the HIPAA medical privacy rule to ACS services (3/28/03)
• AHA Annual Meeting Paper: Promises under pressure: HIPAA - Ensuring Privacy, Security and Administrative Simplification (May 2003)
• Media Toolkit
• Fundraising Post-HIPAA

• Frequently Asked Questions about Provider-Manufacturer Relations under HIPAA

• Conducting patient satisfaction surveys

• An explanation of the ways the HIPAA privacy rules accommodate the requirements under EMTALA

• Highlights for Hospitals - HHS' New Guidance on the HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule (Members Only) (12/6/02)
• OCR Guidance Explaining Significant Aspects of the Privacy Rule (12/4/02)
• Final Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Business Associate Agreements - A Checklist of Required and Optional Elements (Attachment to AHA Legal Advisory ) (Members Only) (10/23/02)
• Final Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Business Associate Agreements - Redlined Version of the HHS Sample Provisions (Supplement to AHA Legal Advisory) (Members Only) (10/23/02)
• Final Changes to the Privacy Rule (8/14/02)
• Hospital Highlights: Final HIPAA Privacy Rule Changes (8/12/02)
• AHA HIPAA Fact Sheet: Keeping Our Medical Privacy Promises (4/24/02)
• Commentary highlighting the importance of HHS proposed changes in the HIPAA privacy rules (3/25/02)
• Hospital Highlights: HIPAA Privacy Regulation Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (3/22/02)
• AHA/Siemens HIPAA Privacy Offerings
• The Problems with the HIPAA Final Privacy Rule: Simplifying the Case for Reform - PowerPoint
• Cost Implications of the Privacy Rule
  • FCG revised cost projections in light of the release of the final privacy rule in December 2000.
  • See the earlier December 2000 Cost Study Report based on the proposed rule that was prepared for AHA by First Consulting Group (FCG).