We're a group within a civilian government health care agency that tracks health care investigations done by doctors across the U.S. We provide budget and lab space so doctors can get published in order to attract good doctors to our agency. The information we gather does not include patient's names or social security numbers. We only track what the doctors are doing with the budget money given them. How would we be affected by the latest changes to HIPAA? We feel at this point that HIPAA does not apply to us for the above reasons.