Interstate Data Exchange Agreements

• State Department of Health and Department of Health and Human Services 
• Memorandum of Understanding between Birth Defects Monitoring Programs
• Memorandum of Understanding between State Department of Health and Hospital

These templates were created by the NBDPN ELSI committee. They serve merely as “models,” and states will need to modify them to adhere to their own laws, agencies, etc. We strongly recommend each state have a legal review done in-house with its own state agency prior to utilizing a template. Each of these templates presumes a state has a law or administrative rule for reporting of birth defects and/or ascertainment of birth defects data.

HIPAA

• HIPAA Awareness for Birth Defect Surveillance Systems. Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee. National Birth Defect Prevention Network. June 1, 2002. 
• Factsheets for Health Care Providers 
• Factsheets for Health Care Providers 

• List of federal and state HIPAA resources from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, HIPAA Privacy Rule
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HIPAA related to National Immunization Program)
• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) vol 52 April 11, 2003
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: HIPAA
• HIPAA Privacy Rule: From the University of N.C. at Chapel Hilll
• American Medical Association
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Privacy of Health Information: HIPAA Summary