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Managed Care December 2002 Fox et al.	Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security A modified rule allows the use and disclosure of "limited data sets" of personal health information for research, health care operations, or public health activities. These sets do not include direct identifiers, such as name, address, or Social Security number.
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.
Entrepreneur March 2003 Mark Henricks	Private Business The word from HIPAA is to keep it zipped when it comes to employee health issues.
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...
Managed Care May 2002 David Humiston & Stephen M. Crane	Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA?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
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.
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...
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas	Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply.
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...
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.
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.
Managed Care September 2002	New Privacy Regulations Almost Certain To Be Tested The Bush administration is moving to loosen health-privacy protections by requiring that providers tell patients about their privacy rights and make only a "good-faith effort" to get a written acknowledgement of that notice.
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....
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.
OCC Bulletin September 8, 2000	Privacy Laws and Regulations This document is designed to assist national banks and their subsidiaries in complying with federal laws and regulations relating to the disclosure of consumer financial information...
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 Mark D. Kotwick	Foreign Privacy Laws and the Cross Border Transfer of Information In an increasingly global financial world, it's helpful to have some basic knowledge about the rules and regs regarding international privacy law.
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Tim Gray	HIPAA Deadline Passes Health care organizations still working to comply with privacy and security technology provisions of HIPAA.
Managed Care March 2001 Mark D. Abruzzo	'Final' Stark Regulations Still a Work in Progress The Stark Law generally prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain designated health services to entities with which the physician (or immediate family members) has a financial relationship...
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Thomas D. Giachetti	Keeping Political Contributions Compliant A new rule on political contributions by investment advisors may make donations dangerous.
Managed Care September 2000	Countdown Begins for Compliance With HIPAA Electronic Standards If you thought a lot of time and money was spent on Y2K readiness, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Complying with the new rules for electronic transaction standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is expected to exceed Y2K in terms of dollars and work hours...
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...
Salon.com December 21, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough?
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."
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?
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Brendon Lynch	Web-Privacy Management Increases in Importance An organization's reputation is increasingly at risk online. Financial-services firms, in particular, are constantly updating their Web sites to provide readily accessible information, services and products to their customers and provide a high degree of visibility for the company and its brands..
PC World August 21, 2006 Yardena Arar	Consumer Watch: Is Your ISP Helping the Feds Spy on You? The privacy of your data may depend on how you connect to the Internet.
Food Processing May 2013 Cameron & Ritter	Food Manufacturers: Are You Prepared for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Given the complexities and tax consequences of the PPACA, employers need to keep the new health care law top of mind.
Fast Company July 2001 Erika Germer	Chief Privacy Officer Job Titles of the Future: It's no secret that consumer privacy is a weighty concern -- especially for a company with 90 million customers. That's why AT&T named Michael Lamb its first chief privacy officer. Lamb wants to make privacy a priority that's out in the open...
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.
U.S. Banker March 2007 Paresh Amin	Balancing Industry Mandates and Federal Regulations Financial companies need to consider compliance, business objectives and data security in a holistic manner. All three can be boiled down to one main requirement: determining what is happening to critical data.
National Defense February 2010 Sean M. Connolly	New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rules Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulations call for contractors to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest or face serious disciplinary action.
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.
CIO March 15, 2001	Policing Privacy Find the answers to all your Internet privacy law questions: Web hosts and COPPA... Privacy issues while trying to track down hackers... Monitoring employee Internet use in Canada... Privacy laws by country...
Managed Care November 2006 Ed Silverman	Loss of Protected Patient Information Real Danger for Health Care Plans There are plenty of ways that confidential data can escape managed care organizations, and the consequences can be major. Can you trust your employees?
Insurance & Technology June 16, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurers Lag on HIPAA Security Rule While health insurers are generally better prepared for the April 21, 2005, HIPAA security rule's deadline than other healthcare industry participants, they still face compliance-readiness challenges.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Blaine Aikin	New Disclosure Regimen Planners are facing considerable competition from brokers in the arena of retirement plans, and the reality that brokers typically don't work as fiduciaries is a thorn in planners' sides.
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...
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Roy Mark	Democrats Call for Privacy Czar A new bill would mandate federal privacy officer to balance civil liberties with homeland security concerns.
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Leon Erlanger	Should You Trust TrustE? Does a privacy seal on a web site mean you don't have to read the privacy statement? Hardly.
National Defense February 2012 Sean M. Connolly	Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule Effective Dec. 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation requires U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to prevent personal conflicts of interest that arise during their employees' performance of certain acquisition functions.
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Janis Mara	Companies Alter Privacy Policies Many online companies have been tweaking their privacy policies.
CIO June 13, 2011 Bill Bulkeley	What CFOs Care About Besides Your IT Budget CFOs need to understand more than the costs and financial benefits to adopting cloud and consumer technologies. They're also on the hook to protect against risk
Managed Care March 2006 Taylor & Eck	It's Time for CMS to Release Physician Medicare Claim Information The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is a rich source of price and quality data. Isn't it about time it shared that data?
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 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...
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InternetNews August 30, 2005 Roy Mark	GAO: Feds Not Protecting Citizen Privacy Government agencies are making progress, but are still not completely complying with federal rules regarding data mining and personal information.
U.S. Banker August 2001	Credit Unions Get Bum Rap on Privacy Letter to the editor about the article "Credit Unions, Consumers' Friends?"
Insurance & Technology April 20, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Gray Shares Perspective Kimberly Gray, chief privacy officer of Highmark, brings a special perspective of the health insurance industry to the International Association of Privacy Professionals.