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                             <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>
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              <h3><strong>HIPAAT ANNOUNCEMENT</strong></h3>
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              <p><strong>September 11, 2012</strong></p>
                                   
              <h2>VA-SAMHSA Pilot supported by HIPAAT Consent Management Software</h2></td>
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            <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>
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                <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>
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          <p class="quote">Announcement date: September 11, 2012          </p>
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