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The material in this report originated in the Epidemiology Program Office, Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., M.Sc., Director. New national health information privacy standards have been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

The material in this report originated in the Epidemiology Program Office, Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., M.Sc., Director. New national health information privacy standards have been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research.

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety.

Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.

Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.

Bringing Immunity to Every Community What is the vaccination rate in your community? ANA is working to eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases through a national immunization partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nurses play a key role in increasing vaccination rates, so we have created a resource page of nursing-specific information, education and tools.

ANA is among a group of organizations that launched a new comprehensive online resource - HealthCareandYou.org - to give Americans easy-to-understand information about the health care law so they can make informed health care decisions for themselves and their families.