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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 January 1, 2002 Stephanie Viscasillas	Privacy Versus the FBI The antiterrorism law President Bush signed in late October makes it easier for officials investigating potential terrorist activity to get court orders to search companies' business records. It is important to take that into account in your privacy policy.
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.
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 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.
InternetNews February 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Napolitano Urged to Act on Border Laptop Seizures Homeland security advisers press for greater oversight by privacy officials.
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...
Information Today December 20, 2010	Commerce Department Calls for 'Privacy Bill of Rights' The report outlines a dynamic framework to increase protection of consumers' commercial data and support innovation and evolving technology. The Department is seeking additional public comment on the plan.
CIO February 1, 2002 Lorraine Cosgrove Ware	Invest in Privacy Policies and Keep Your Customers To maintain loyalty, it's important to consider your customers and recognize what other companies are doing to ensure their privacy...
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 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 July 29, 2015 Heidi Shey	Data privacy is now a competitive differentiator How you handle confidential data may spell the difference between consumer loyalty and business disaster.
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 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...
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas	Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply.
InternetNews December 2, 2009	Privacy Group Warns of Digital Health Records Patient Privacy Rights issues report card showing wide variations in privacy safeguards in electronic health offerings.
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...
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.
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 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
InternetNews September 7, 2010	Google Faces Heat Over Privacy Tweaks A move to reduce legalese has one privacy advocacy group up in arms.
Salon.com December 21, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough?
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Gartner: Firms Still Playing Catch-Up With Privacy Budget shortfalls, tangled international laws stymie enterprise privacy operations.
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.
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..
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.
Information Today May 3, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Online Consumer Privacy in the Spotlight Choose Privacy Week is being held May 1-7, 2012. The theme is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom established Choose Privacy Week to deepen public awareness about this issue. The event is timely with many privacy issues like CISPA in the news.
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...
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.
InternetNews January 25, 2011	Lawmakers Call for ISP Data-Retention Rules Under pressure from law enforcement agencies that service providers delete subscriber records too quickly, House panel airs bipartisan support for retention mandate.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
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.
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Momentum Builds for Updating Privacy Act Government, advocacy groups call for Congress and agencies to modernize the way citizens' personal information is handled.
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.
Salon.com July 11, 2000 Simson Garfinkel	Can a labeling system protect your privacy? One good look at the White House's implementation of P3P throws into question the value of the whole privacy initiative.
Entrepreneur December 2003 Chris Penttila	Show of Good Faith It's more important than ever to show customers you'll keep their information private.
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 October 7, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Privacy Concerns Pushed to Front Lines Feds must explore, explain any effect on privacy by new policies or practices, under pending legislation.
ifeminists June 8, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Privacy: Throwing Babies Out with Bath Water Privacy rights are under attack and cases are so legally tangled that analysis becomes blurred and bad law based on judicial activism becomes more possible.
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.
InternetNews September 22, 2010	Senate Ponders Update of Electronic Privacy Act Twenty four years after the passage of the ECPA, much has changed in the way companies and governments collect, store and share electronic data.
Entrepreneur March 2003 Mark Henricks	Private Business The word from HIPAA is to keep it zipped when it comes to employee health issues.
InternetNews January 27, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Privacy 'Achilles Heel' in Health IT Debate Senate hearing considers privacy concerns as Congress prepares to spend billions on digitizing healthcare industry.
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."