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HIPAA Compliance Handbook is intended for HIPAA coordinators, project managers, privacy officers, compliance professionals, health care record managers, and others who have the responsibility for implementing the HIPAA Administrative Simplification title. it contains easy-to-understand explanations of the legal and regulatory provisions as well as sample HIPAA-related agreements. The 2008 Edition has been updated to include: Case law updates, including details of the Machado/Ferrer case, The first criminal case to go to trial under the Privacy Rule Enforcement updates, including information about Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) new enforcement Website, Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS’s) delegation of subpoena power, And The first Security Rule audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Information about the National Provider Identifier (NPI) contingency guidelines And The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plan for NPI data dissemination Highlights of the first official guidelines on the Security Rule New appendices with business associate language and a sample plan amendment