Leading health law to excellence through education, information, and dialogue, the American Health Lawyers Association (Health Lawyers) is the nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues.
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
HCCA exists to champion ethical practice and compliance standards and to provide the necessary resources for ethics and compliance professionals and others who share these principles.
The Internal Revenue Service is the nation's tax collection agency and administers the Internal Revenue Code enacted by Congress.
The Journal of Nursing Law addresses issues of concern to lawyers, nurses, policy makers, and ethicists. It is the only journal analyzing nursing law relating to nursing practice, education, and administration. Emphasis is placed on emerging trends in the law with suggestions for how nurses and lawyers can influence these trends. Our audience includes nurse attorneys, bio-ethicists, legislators, practicing nurses, nurse educators and nurse administrators.
The journal is dedicated to advancing regulatory excellence for the public’s protection and providing a worldwide forum for sharing research, evidence-based practice, and innovative strategies and solutions related to nursing regulation and practice, with the ultimate goal of safeguarding the public. Journal of Nursing Regulation (JNR), offers a mix of articles: including original research; features on regulatory issues, policies, and laws; critical reviews; evidence-based best practices; public safety; case reports; and continuing education.
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. MedWeb's primary audience is the academic and research community at Emory.
Nurses Service Organization has been serving the insurance needs of the nursing community since 1976.
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services - HIPAA
Office for Civil Rights
OSDJ's Mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services
The mission of the Office of Inspector General, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, as well as the health and welfare of the beneficiaries of those programs. The OIG has a responsibility to report both to the Secretary and to the Congress program and management problems and recommendations to correct them. The OIG's duties are carried out through a nationwide network of audits, investigations, inspections and other mission-related functions performed by OIG components.
