HIPAA: A Guide to Healthcare Privacy and Security Law

HIPAA: A Guide to Health Care Privacy and Security Law serves as your main HIPAA desk reference. Instead of scattered books and manuals, you'll have all your legal information in one neatly indexed source - so you can quickly resolve the kinds of questions that arise on a regular basis.

HIPAA: A Guide to Health Care Privacy and Security Law provides updated coverage of:

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and its effects on the privacy and security of health information, including, but not limited to:
  • Covered entities’ new obligations under HIPAA's privacy and security rules
  • Business associates’ new obligations under HIPAA's privacy and security rules
  • Security breach notification requirements
  • Increased individual rights under HIPAA
  • Strengthened enforcement provisions

• New guidance by the Office of Civil Rights regarding:
  • Personal health records and the HIPAA privacy rule
  • Health information technology and the HIPAA privacy rule
  • Application of FERPA and HIPAA to student health records
  • Communications with a patient's family, friends, and others involved in the patient's care

• New companion fact sheets provided by the Office of Civil Rights that address the Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for electronic exchange of individually identifiable health information
• Updated state security breach notification laws, including a general summary of each state's key provisions