media clips:

"Medical Privacy" search results from:

• The Honolulu Advertiser (search for Honolulu Advertiser articles using Google)
• Honolulu Star-Bulletin (search for Honolulu Star-Bulletin articles using Google)
• The Pacific Business News

titles in library collection

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• Call 587-0690 (O`ahu only) to check circulation availability.

clipping file

• "Privacy" The Library maintains a comprehensive subject clipping file from Honolulu's major newspapers.

General References:

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Privacy of Health Information / HIPAA
  Includes general background information (fact sheet, privacy rule summary), HIPAA regulations and standards, educational materials, answers to frequently asked questions, and other HIPAA related links.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) [Public Law 104-191].

State of Hawai`i sites

History of the law in Hawaii:

• June 23, 1999 HB351 signed into law as Act 87 (1999)
  Hawaii`s medical privacy law to take effect July 1, 2000 (codified as Chapter 323C, Hawaii Revised Statutes).
• August 29, 2000 HB2 from the Second Special Session of 2000 signed into law as Act 1 (pdf)
  (amends Act 87, session laws of 1999, by changing the effective date to July 1, 2001).
• June 14, 2001 HB201 signed into law as Act 244
  repeals Act 87, preliminary codified as chapter 323C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the privacy of health care information.

Hawaii Attorney General

• Legal Opinion 00-02: Effect of Hawaii's New Health Care Information Privacy Act on State Functions (dated July 25, 2000).

Office of Information Practices

• Openline newsletter periodically reports on the latest issues regarding HIPAA.
• OIP Report - Report of the Medical Privacy Task Force to the Legislature, December 2000 (pdf)
  submitted pursuant to Act 140 of the Regular Session of 2000; contains history of the law and its findings and recommendations.