Office
for Civil Rights
Health
Information Privacy Office
CDC/DHHS
Guidance, HIPAA Privacy Rule and Public Health
(MMWR, April 11, 2003)
Public
Health Privacy Presentation
This PowerPoint slide presentation addresses
the implications of the HIPAA privacy rule
on public health practice. The content has
been approved by the Office for Civil Rights
(OCR).
North
American Association of Central Cancer Registries
(NAACCR)
(exit
site)
The NAACCR has developed materials to assist
central cancer registries and cancer reporting
entities in assuring compliance with HIPAA
privacy regulations. These include a letter
from NAACCR legal counsel and an in-depth,
academic interpretation of the impact of
the regulation on cancer incidence reporting
to central cancer registries. Since immunization
information systems (IIS) must address many
of the same privacy issues as cancer registries,
these documents may be an important resource
for IIS projects.
