Hanify & King has just launched its new web site. The address is the same— www.hanify.com, but the content is all new. The new site is the product of many months of effort, and much reflection and introspection. Our goal was not simply to update our old site with flashier graphics and more current photos.

In the last days of the Clinton administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, acting under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, published the Privacy Rule, which prescribes new, nationwide standards for the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The Privacy Rule went into effect on April 14, 2003, with a grace period of a year for certain smaller health plans.