This issue focuses on privacy, e-health, and information security issues in healthcare, particularly the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standard. It presents various views from the perspective of providers, payers, and consultants about information security practices, information security programs, and approaches to implementing information security within a healthcare environment that will meet HIPAA security standard requirements. Articles cover risk assessment, privacy issues, e-mail security, and statewide collaborative information security projects. This is an issue of the "Journal for Healthcare Information Management," sponsored by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. For more information on subscriptions and other available issues, please see the Journal of Healthcare Information Management page.