Welcome to the Mississippi Health Information Security and Privacy Center.

The loss of health information in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated nationwide the critical need for interconnected health information systems. These natural disasters disrupted medical care to thousands of people who were displaced from their homes and from their regular health care providers. Professionals and consumers became aware of the need for a secure and private exchange of health information.

This Web site is the result of Mississippi's work in the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC), a national initiative to study the secure and private exchange of health information