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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.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas	Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply.
Managed Care November 2001 Darren T. Binder	Determining Who Is Covered By HIPAA Privacy Regulation Because there are significant penalties associated with noncompliance with the new HIPAA, business leaders must determine whether their operations put them at risk of violating the regulations...
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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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...
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 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
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.
Managed Care December 2001	Survey: HMOs confused about HIPAA privacy regs Though the clock is ticking for HMOs to comply with new privacy guidelines under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, indications are that many companies are confused about what they need to do...
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.
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 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 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 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...
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...
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.
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 January 2002	1-Year Delay Near In Implementation Of HIPAA Rules It looks like most players in health care -- IT vendors excluded -- will get what they want if a bill delaying the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's electronic claims standards becomes law...
Investment Advisor August 2006 Marlene Y. Satter	Insurance Update: Insurance Multitasking Long-term care insurance is frequently a hard sell, until people are older and often ineligible for coverage. Planners thus may be interested in a multifaceted strategy that answers several needs at once.
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.
PC World June 2003 Andrew Brandt	When You're Forced Onto the Web Workers sometimes face strong pressure from employers to publicize their personal data online.
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.
Insurance & Technology May 14, 2005 David Joachim	Q&A With Allstate Security Boss Kim Van Nostern An interview about how, in today's environment, it takes more than technical expertise to run a secure insurance enterprise.
Inc. October 2005 John Fried	The Government's Take on E-mail Regulators have thought up lots of rules governing e-mail. It's your job to figure out which ones cover you.
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.
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Janis Mara	Companies Alter Privacy Policies Many online companies have been tweaking their privacy policies.
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 November 1, 2002 Ben Worthen	How to Meet Tomorrow's Privacy Rules Today When it comes to preparing for impending security regulations, health-care CIOs have some simple advice: Act now.
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?
CRM August 2005 Marshall Lager	CRM in an Age of Legislation Privacy laws have forced sales callers and outbound marketers to clean up their act and given them a chance to polish their image.
Managed Care February 2008 Frank Diamond	You Will Live Healthily! Employers want to do everything within the law to make workers change their lifestyles, and they expect health plans to help
Managed Care May 2002 Sharon Baker	Self-Funded HMOs on the Rise Escalating premiums, changing attitudes play a role in employers' decision to take on the same thing that burned many physicians: financial risk
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 November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
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?
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 John Teresko	Protecting Intellectual Capital Strategic initiatives such as nanotechnology heighten the need for intellectual property safeguards. Here is a list of steps you can take to protect your company.
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.
Job Journal March 5, 2006 Bob Rosner	Working Wounded: A Respectful Privacy Policy Follow these tips and you shouldn't be blindsided by any nasty surprises from your privacy policy.
Insurance & Technology December 13, 2006 Maria Woehr	Securing Easier Access As part of an ongoing effort to enhance service through automation, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has launched My Remit Manager.
Insurance & Technology March 7, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	Who Goes There? Insurance industry executives discuss how controlling access to information through identity management is key to securing critical client and corporate data.
CRM February 9, 2015 Maria Minsker	Oracle Launches Life Sciences Solution for Oracle Marketing Cloud The solution delivers marketing tools while adhering to HIPAA regulations.
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...
Insurance & Technology August 10, 2006 Maria Woehr	Compliance Automation Responding to growing pressure on insurers to comply with federal regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Federal Information Act and HIPAA, ControlPath launched ControlPath Compliance Suite 3.0.
InternetNews July 13, 2004 Erin Joyce	Resistance is Futile. Your E-mail is Being Watched. According to a new survey anyway. At least you know you're not paranoid.