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Spanish-Language NPP Finally Available
If you have Spanish-speaking patients, you now have a model Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) available for them.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a Spanish version of the model NPP. Like the English-language version, the Spanish model NPP comes in several forms: a booklet; a layered notice that presents a summary on the first page, followed by the full content; a full-page version; and a text-only version.
Link: To access the model NPPs in both English and Spanish, go to www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/modelnotices.html. Use the links labeled for health care providers, not health plans.
The notice may not last forever, though. OCR and the HHS Office of the National Coordi-nator for Health Information Technology is launching the Digital Privacy Notice Challenge, which calls for designers, developers, and patient privacy experts to create and submit the best model online NPP. The contest’s first-place winner will receive $15,000. In May 2014, a review panel will evaluate entries for accurate use of content from paper NPPs; use of best practices in presenting Web content for public consumption; visual appeal; and capacity for entity to customize content and link to other relevant content.
Entries are due by April 7. For more information on the Digital Privacy Notice Challenge, visit http://onchealthitchallenges.ideascale.com.
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