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 New privacy regulations to help protect the confidentiality of an individual’s health information went into effect on April 14. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule was created by the Department of Health and Human Services as a result of a federal law enacted in 1996. To learn more about how the new privacy rule may affect research efforts at Harvard University, please visit the web site of HSPH’s Human Subjects Committee, http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hsc/. Harvard Public Health NOW is published biweekly by the Office of Communications Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Ave., SPH 1-1312A Boston, Massachusetts 02115 617-432-6052 Editor and Layout: Christina Roache Contributing Writers: Robin Herman, Tom Reynolds, Richard Saltus Calendar Editor: Melitta King Photos Credits: Suzanne Camarata, Liza Green, Christina Roache Archived Issues || HSPH Home Copyright, 2009, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
