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CIO July 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon |
Eight (Not So) Simple Steps to the HIPAA Finish Line While much of the new security rule is common sense, meeting it by the 2005 deadline won't be easy. Here's a checklist to ease your heartburn. |
CIO March 15, 2004 Alison Bass |
Health-Care I.T As more health-care providers move toward electronic medical records that they can easily share via the Internet, the potential for abuse grows. |
Nursing Management April 2010 Lisa A. Gallagher |
Revisiting HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy and Security Rules have been in effect since 2002-03. |
Managed Care April 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein |
President's Privacy-Rule Review Creates Controversy, Confusion The final medical privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stand out in terms of controversy and confusion. The end game is still cast in doubt... |
CIO March 15, 2006 Allan Holmes |
The Profits in Privacy Contrary to popular belief, protecting the privacy of customer data and making a profit are not mutually exclusive goals. Here are several leading companies who have accomplished both and how they pulled it off. |
Managed Care December 2001 John Carroll |
The Coming HIPAA Crisis HIPAA's timetable has been known for years, but many organizations that the law covers are dawdling pitifully in preparing for compliance... |
Managed Care February 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein |
HIPAA Privacy Rules Create Uncertainty, Compliance Woes When it comes to information-sharing, just when does 'no' mean 'no'? What about conflicting statutes? We have two years to sort it out... |
CIO June 1, 2004 Susannah Patton |
Privacy Is Your Business What's the payoff for CIOs becoming privacy champions? Better business, more secure IT and a higher corporate profile. |
Managed Care August 2002 Michael S. Victoroff |
Prying Eyes Push Against Boundary of Medical Privacy It seems some folks have been publishing on the Internet pictures of women visiting abortion clinics. Is this constitutionally protected journalism? Or a violation of privacy? |
Managed Care February 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein |
Plans, Providers Should Use HIPAA Breathing Room Wisely HMOs may delay compliance with HIPAA electronic transactions and code reporting requirements for one year under legislation passed by Congress late last year. However, the new law doesn't affect information privacy requirements slated to take effect in 2003... |
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Tim Gray |
HIPAA Deadline Passes Health care organizations still working to comply with privacy and security technology provisions of HIPAA. |
CIO June 15, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet |
Balancing Act Alan Westin, who's been studying information privacy for 40 years, talks about the CIO's tricky role in protecting corporate data. |
Managed Care May 2002 David Humiston & Stephen M. Crane |
Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA? Careful interpretation required: Health plans operating in multiple states have a challenge sorting out where the federal law trumps state statutes |
CIO September 23, 2009 Kim S. Nash |
Booster Shot for E-Health How federal stimulus spending will impact the rollout of electronic medical records. |
CIO June 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet |
Immune Systems Health officials are working toward a sophisticated IT network that could detect the early warning signs of bioterrorism, but formidable obstacles remain. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney |
Protecting Patients' Privacy President Bush's health-tech czar has a plan to ensure that health records stored on a national network don't fall into the wrong hands. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas |
Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply. |
InternetNews March 6, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas |
See My Profile on MyDisease Do privacy concerns about putting personal health information online outweigh the benefits? |
CIO August 1, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet |
Paperless Medicine Saving Money, Saving Lives Health-care CIOs face intense pressure to install electronic medical records and order-entry systems, in spite of physician resistance and large up-front costs. Here's how early adopters are overcoming the obstacles. |
CIO January 15, 2004 Ben Worthen |
The Next President's IT Agenda - The Policies What the next president does will have a profound impact on IT and the way corporations do business. Here are the decisions he needs to make on critical infrastructure, jobs, privacy, corporate governance and the future of IT. |
Managed Care April 2007 John Carroll |
Privacy Concerns Delay Health Information Network Sufficient confidentiality needs to be assured before a nationwide health information system will be ready for implementation. |
CIO June 11, 2009 Michael Fitzgerald |
How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules Facebook and Twitter are reshaping user expectations for control over their personal data and causing companies to rethink how they treat customer and business data. |
Managed Care May 2001 |
New Privacy Rules May Provide Boost For IT Companies For all the whining about HIPAA from providers and payers, there are reports that a growing share of them are beginning to see the value of it in long-term savings... |
PC World April 25, 2008 Erik Larkin, PC World |
Should You Trust Your Health Records to Google and Microsoft? Until we have laws guaranteeing the privacy of my digitized health information, I'll pass. |
CIO April 15, 2002 Daintry Duffy |
Continental Divide While Europe has adopted strict privacy regulations, U.S. companies are still collecting and trading their customers' info like it's going out of style. If Simon Davies has his way, it will... |
Managed Care June 2002 T. Emmet Thornton |
HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act of 1996 will supersede state law on medical-record subpoenas in several respects. |
CIO November 1, 2001 Alison Bass |
Miller's Privacy Warning Information security lapses present one front of a looming courtroom battle. Legal Expert Arthur Miller says CIOs and corporate America also have to protect people's privacy -- or risk a jury's wrath... |
Managed Care April 2002 |
HHS Applies 'Common Sense' To Privacy Regs In what is being hailed -- or scorned, depending upon the source -- as a major victory for the health care industry, the Bush administration has issued proposed revisions to privacy regulations... |
Managed Care November 2002 Fox et al. |
HIPAA Modifications Ease Burdens, But Don't Take Anything for Granted Although the final privacy rule in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eases some burdens for managed care organizations and providers, it still significantly restricts the use and disclosure of protected health information. |
Managed Care December 2002 Joyce Ochs |
Providers, Plans Misinformed About Vendor Software Capability Software vendors are not affected by HIPAA, although their customers are. Jeffrey Fusile, the partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers who heads the HIPAA Advisory Services, claims that "vendors and clearinghouses have misled people to a fault." |
PC World March 15, 2001 Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Medical Records Privacy Law Threatened A handful of insurance and medical industry companies want to sell your personal data. A look at the current state of the law in the U.S. |
CIO September 15, 2002 Meridith Levinson |
The Best Offense While most security dollars go to technology, CIOs in our exclusive survey say investments in staff -- and education efforts to guide them -- must back up that robust firewall. |
CIO June 15, 2002 Scott Berinato |
CIOs at the Heart of Health-Care Change For good or ill, CIOs are reshaping the way health care is delivered in America. Learn why CIOs are involved in fixing health care, find out how technology is helping to replace managed care with new kinds of insurance, and understand the ethical dilemmas these CIOs must deal with. |
CIO January 15, 2004 Martha Heller |
Five IT Marching Orders for the Next Administration While CIOs are often wary of government intervention into anything IT, when it comes to a few major issues they agree that a little federal attention could go a long way. |
CIO September 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby |
India to Adopt Data Privacy Rules European Union data protection rules prompted India to enact its own law mandating safeguards for data sent to India for offshore outsourcing contracts. |
CIO May 1, 2002 Alain Jourdier |
Too Close for Comfort CRM may be a marketer's dream, but companies should still pay heed to privacy and ethical concerns... |
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike |
House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law. |
CIO October 1, 2000 Martha Heller |
Customer Privacy on the Web If federal regulation is so abhorrent to the Internet industry, why won't e-commerce companies do what it takes to keep the government off their backs? |
CIO June 9, 2009 Maryfran Johnson |
Cybersecurity and the Privacy Debate How privacy issues are being addressed with cybersecurity. |
Salon.com December 21, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough? |
Inc. November 2003 Alison Stein Wellner |
The Privacy Time Bomb If you provide health insurance, you're sitting on a potential privacy time bomb. Here's how to defuse it. |
InternetNews December 22, 2006 Ray Everett-Church |
Privacy Rules: Business vs. Consumers American businesses lobbying for lax security regulations should look at Europe's example to see the economic value of tighter rules. |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy a Stumbling Block in Healthcare IT Government's push for universal electronic health records brings tech firms into thorny privacy debate. |
CIO February 15, 2002 |
Solution: Secure Socket Layer Encryption - Problem: Security Hospitals have to be very careful to protect the privacy of their data. How can security be ensured when transmitting data wirelessly? CareGroup Healthcare System is using SSL and network card address checking on top of wired equivalent privacy (WEP). |
CIO June 14, 2011 Kim S. Nash |
Why CIOs Should Care About Privacy Customers will judge your company's competence according to how well you protect their data, says Don Peppers, co-founder of customer relationship advisory firm Peppers & Rogers Group. CIOs are on the front line. |
InternetNews December 18, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
E-Healthcare Gets Federal Mandate Department of Health and Human Services unveils best practices for ensuring patient privacy with online medical records, Medicare pushes e-prescriptions. |
Managed Care April 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D. |
Despite What You Hear, State Privacy Statutes No Threat to DM In Managed Care's November 1999 issue, Al Lewis, president of the Disease Management Association of America, wrote about potential pitfalls facing DM. One identified by Lewis was state privacy laws, a topic that merits further attention.... |
CIO June 15, 2003 Scott Berinato |
A Rash of IT Failures This has been an intense six months for health-care CIOs in general, judging by some very public incidents. |
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt |
Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system. |
PC World April 16, 2001 David Clarke |
Internet Privacy: A Matter of Competition? Privacy policy debate considers legislation, self-regulation, and letting the market decide... |