The Office for Civil Rights under the Dept. of Health & Human Services protects the privacy and security of health information. There is information describing the HIPAA legislation on this website for all levels of healthcare personnel as well as for the general public.

This is a link-to site from the DHHS Office for Civil Rights, the government office listed above. It contains links to a variety of resources that will help you understand and integrate HIPAA and more into your professional practice.

This page, the responsibility of the American Medical Association, supplies a good basic description of civil violations and criminal penalties and more.

EPIC is a public interest research center established to bring attention to privacy issues as well as emerging civil liberties issues, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. This regularly updated website has a page dedicated to discussing Medical Record Privacy.

PPR is a non-profit organization working to inform the public about health records privacy and choices.