Topical Legal & Policy Research
Private Insurance
Secondary Resources
Health Privacy Project
What: The Health Privacy Project (HPP) seeks to raise public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level. The HPP site offers excellent, consumer-friendly and advocate-appropriate federal and state-specific resources.
How to search: In addition to helpful consumer resources, advocates may access several helpful resources, including:
- Federal - While users may access HIPAA-specific Federal regulations on other sites (see above), this page offers access to HPP Comments on HIPAA Regulations. Additionally, HPP has compiled lists of any current legislation, both in the House and the Senate, dealing with health privacy issues. Users may also find the HPP's testimony before Congress helpful.
- State - Offers access to HPP summaries of states' privacy statutes. Users select a state from the pull-down menu and then download the summary in PDF format. The summaries provide general information about the kinds of protections offered in state statutes and about gaps in privacy protection.
- HPP Resources - This page offers several helpful resources, including Fact Sheets, Reports, and a link to HIPAA guidance prepared by other organizations.
Helpful hints: While the HPP Web site offers several links to federal statutes and regulations regarding HIPAA, users should defer to the government sites linked above.
Other Web sites: Other HIPAA Privacy-related websites include:
HealthInsuranceInfo.Net
What: Funded through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute produces A Consumer Guide For Getting and Keeping Health Insurance for each state and the District of Columbia. The guides offer summary information for consumers accessing insurance programs in each state.
How to search: Users simply select their state guide in either HTML or PDF format. The HTML format permits browsing of linked chapters.
Helpful hints: Since these guides provide excellent summary information, users will benefit from starting their research with a review of their state's health insurance programs and consumer protections. As specific questions arise, access further information on some of the other sites provided in this manual.
Other Web sites: The guides available on this site were produced as part of a grant funded project and probably are only available on this site. However, the following sites may offer useful information:
