The HIPAA Survival Guide (HSG) online now has the full text of the HIPAA Regulations available in a "clickable" format. What does that mean? You can think of it as a point and click navigation for the regulations in a Wikipedia like format. Each time another section of the regulations is referenced in the section you are reading you can "point and click" to the referenced section.
Now that the HITECH Act's meaningful use definition makes compliance with HIPAA mandatory (i.e. if a provider or facility wants to get paid their EHR incentives) many more stakeholders will need to become HIPAA literate. The HSG makes the education process easier by making the regulations more visible and "digestible."
Don't get me wrong, if you want to become literate you still need to do the work, but you don't have to crawl through paper documents or 100 page PDF files. If you want to learn more about the background of the HSG click here.
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