ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HIPAAT Announcement</TITLE> <STYLE type=text/css>BODY { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #595959; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } .body { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #595959; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } .quote {font-size: 10px; } p,li { FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #595959; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 12px } A:link { COLOR: #002B54; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:active { COLOR: #002B54; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: #002B54; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:hover { COLOR: #b0000b; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } H1 { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #002B54; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0; } H2 { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #B0000B; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0; } H3 { FONT-WEIGHT: none; FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #002B54; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0; } } .floatright { float:right; margin: 4px; padding: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0; } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ebebeb leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <TABLE bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="CENTER" width="558" border=0 cellPadding=10 cellSpacing=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD valign="top" width="538"> <table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" > <p><a href="http://www.hipaat.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.hipaat.com/external_com/pressreleases/hipaat_smalllogo.jpg" border="0" align="right"></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>HIPAAT ANNOUNCEMENT</strong></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>September 11, 2012</strong></p> <h2>VA-SAMHSA Pilot supported by HIPAAT Consent Management Software</h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"><p>During this week&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.healthit.gov/healthitweek/" target="_blank">National Health IT Week</a>, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are collaborating with Health Level Seven (HL7) at their Annual Plenary and Working Group <a href="http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public_temp_19752481-1C23-BA17-0C6F7C1CF854F193/brochures/wgm/HL7_WGM_20120702.pdf" target="_blank">Meeting</a> to demonstrate an ONC privacy <a href="http://wiki.siframework.org/SAMHSA-VA-Pilot" target="_blank">pilot</a>.&nbsp; The pilot will show providers&rsquo; ability to share portions of an EHR while segmenting (masking/redacting) other portions such as mental health records which have special protection under Federal law.</p> <p>This initiative was developed by the Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) Workgroup under the ONC- sponsored Standards and Interoperability Framework.&nbsp; The <em>Directed &ldquo;Push&rdquo; Health Information Exchange</em> scenario shown in this <a href="http://www.hipaat.com/external_com/DS4P.pdf" target="_blank">ONC publication</a> will illustrate the pilot interoperating with HIPAAT software to manage patient privacy preferences.</p> <p><img src="http://www.hipaat.com/external_com/marketwire_bot.jpg" width="530" height="35"></p></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td><p><strong>About <a href="http://www.hipaat.com/" target="_blank">HIPAAT</a></strong><br> <a href="http://hipaat.com/index.php">HIPAAT</a> (hip &#8226; at) provides consent management and privacy auditing solutions to healthcare. Our SOA-based software balances consumer information privacy with the clinical need to access personal health information. Our interoperable, standards-based approach enables stakeholders at all levels of health data sharing to implement, audit and enforce patient, organizational and jurisdictional privacy policies. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.hipaat.com">www.hipaat.com</a>.</p></td> </tr> </table> <div align="right"> <p class="quote">Announcement date: September 11, 2012 </p> </div></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><p align="center" class="quote">HIPAAT respects your privacy and the right to choose which communications you wish to receive. If you prefer not to receive HIPAAT informational e-mails, faxes, or postal mailings, please send a blank email to <a href="mailto:unsubscribe@hipaat.com">unsubscribe@hipaat.com</a> </p> <p align="center" class="quote"><br> <a href="http://www.hipaat.com">www.hipaat.com</a></p></TD> </TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </BODY></HTML>