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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:05 PM
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Subject: NIST Released 2 Draft Publications


NIST Announces the release of 2 Draft documents: (1) DRAFT Special
Publication 800-122, Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and (2) DRAFT NIST IR 7497
Draft Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information
Exchanges (HIEs)

(1) NIST announces that draft Special Publication (SP) 800-122,
Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable
Information (PII), is now available for public comment. SP 800-122 is
intended to assist Federal organizations in identifying PII and
determining what level of protection each instance of PII requires,
based on the potential impact of a breach of the PII's
confidentiality. The publication also suggests safeguards that may
offer appropriate protection for PII and makes recommendations
regarding PII data breach handling.

NIST requests comments on draft SP 800-122 by March 13, 2009. Please
submit comments to 800-122comments@... with "Comments SP
800-122" in the subject line.

URL to Draft SP 800-122 on Drafts page:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-122

(2) NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7497, Draft Security Architecture
Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), is intended
to provide a systematic approach to designing a technical security
architecture for the exchange of health information that leverages
common government and commercial practices and that applies them
specifically to the HIE domain. This publication assists
organizations in ensuring that data protection is adequately
addressed throughout the system development life cycle, and that
these data protection mechanisms are applied when the organization
develops technologies that enable the exchange of health information.

Please submit your comments to draft-nistir7497-comments@....
The comment period for draft NIST IR 7497 closes on Friday March 13, 2009.

URL to Draft NIST IR 7497:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#nistir-7497