A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA: New eBook + complete update

A PATIENTS’ GUIDE TO HIPAA: NEW E-BOOK + COMPLETE UPDATE

For immediate release

5 March 2019

Oregon: World Privacy Forum’s classic and highly popular health privacy resource for consumers, A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA, has been given a complete end-to-end update and is now also available as an ebook.

A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA is the only resource of its kind and fills a meaningful gap in consumer privacy education. “We are delighted with how well the Patient’s Guide to HIPAA has been received and utilized over the past 10 years,” said WPF executive director Pam Dixon. “With the new formatting for web and mobile, plus the utility of the ebook and PDF format, we are providing this vital information in a way that is more accessible and maximizes clarity.”

A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA is available at www.worldprivacyforum.org.

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