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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... |
PC World May 2001 Brad Grimes |
Privacy Matters Marketers would love to find out all about you and your online activities. But what personal data should you let them obtain? We report on recent developments in Net surveillance and their effect on you... |
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... |
Managed Care April 2001 Frank Diamond |
Why HMOs Could Thrive In the Economic Downturn It happened in the slump of the early 1990s, and it could very well happen again. Managed care feasts while other industries starve. People will still get sick, even in bad times... |
Fast Company June 2001 George Anders |
Can You Keep a Secret? The push for online privacy threatens to kill the dream of super-sophisticated, Net-driven marketing. But there are simple ways that companies can have their data and protect it too... |
D-Lib May 2001 Bonita Wilson |
Internet Privacy: An Oxymoron? It must be "that time of year" for privacy policy notifications. I have been receiving a blizzard of privacy policy pamphlets tucked in with various account statements and bills. I've been reading these privacy policies with a great deal of skepticism... |
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 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... |
PC World February 20, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill |
Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals... |
Managed Care January 2001 |
When pressure's on, raises get better In this tight labor market, most large companies are offering competitive salaries to recruit top talent, while making pay raises attractive enough to retain good employees who are knowledgeable about the organization. This is, perhaps, doubly true for managed care organizations... |
Managed Care January 2001 Richard B. Dwore |
Study An Opportunity for HMOs To Use Marketing To Increase Enrollee Satisfaction... |
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... |
Entrepreneur September 2001 Melissa Campanelli |
Prying Eyes The cry has gone out from Web surfers everywhere: "Stop looking at me!" How can your marketing plan respect their wishes? |
Managed Care August 2001 John A. Marcille |
The Patients' Bill of Rights: Is What They Want What They Need? Passage of the Patients' Bill of Rights, which may be imminent, may not go down as one of the great works of the world, but rather as the fruit of mob judgment: "HMOs -- bad"... |
Salon.com September 14, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Send in the online spooks? In the aftermath of terrorism, civil libertarians are running for cover. But are they protesting too much? |
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... |
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. |
PC World July 27, 2001 Cara Garretson |
Should a Web Site's Privacy Policy be Set by Law? Tech leaders say they want the flexibility to write their own, but Congress leans otherwise... |
Salon.com July 18, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Thank God for the Internet An interview with Michael Lewis about his new book "Next: The Future Just Happened." Why youth is becoming more important, how the internet will change business, and why privacy is a wasteful luxury. |
Managed Care July 2001 John Otrompke |
Stark Allows Federal Regulators To Review Claims Records Fully HMO executives, as well as the providers and physicians who contract with them, should have by now felt the changes in their daily work lives resulting from the government's increased scrutiny of health plans' operations under the fraud-and-abuse compliance laws... |
Salon.com June 13, 2000 David McGuire |
Immune from liability The Supreme Court blocks a potentially important legal path for people who want to sue HMOs. Now, the spotlight is on Congress. |
Salon.com November 2, 1999 Maura Kelly |
Is the Net in your locker room? Privacy abuses abound on the Internet -- but so far, the government doesn't appear to care. |
Searcher August 2000 Josh Duberman & Michael Beaudet |
Privacy Perspectives for Online Searchers: Confidentiality with Confidence This article presents some of the issues and questions involved in online privacy from the information professional's perspective. We offer it as a resource for making more informed decisions in this rapidly changing area. |
Salon.com August 21, 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Leggo my data! Web surfers want privacy online, but a new study shows they can't tell a cookie from a Cocoa Puff. |
Managed Care November 1999 |
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Suit Against HMOs Over Incentives Can HMOs be sued for the practice of offering bonuses to physicians who help them keep the cost of care down?... |
Managed Care November 1999 Richard Hamer |
Goals 2000: For HMOs: Administrative Retooling For MDs: Managerial Competency ...While HMOs retrench, physicians need to become more constructive participants.... |
Managed Care November 1999 Margaret E. O'Kane |
Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans Now that the hard part -- forging quality-measurement systems for HMOs and point-of-service plans -- has been done, the next step is to adapt these programs to the rest of the health care industry.... |
Managed Care March 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo |
Beating Obesity Begins By Expanding Tort Reform It's been suggested that, in order to battle obesity, HMOs should use their collective information and knowledge to change their members' behavior.... |
PC World June 1, 2000 Daniel Tynan |
Privacy 2000: In Web We Trust? In the real world, nobody knows what TV commercials you watch or which sitcoms you surf. When you go strolling through the mall, no one's making note of the stores you visit or the clothes you try on. But on the Internet, Web sites are doing all of this and more. And that makes some people mad as hell. |
Salon.com October 6, 2000 Simson Garfinkel |
Mano a mano with John McCain At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears... |
Macworld December 2000 David Pogue |
Take My Privacy, Please Could Somebody Remind Me Why We're Panicking? |
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? |
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Tim Gray |
HIPAA Deadline Passes Health care organizations still working to comply with privacy and security technology provisions of HIPAA. |
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. |
Entrepreneur March 2003 Mark Henricks |
Private Business The word from HIPAA is to keep it zipped when it comes to employee health issues. |
Fast Company July 2004 Lucas Conley |
Refusing to Gamble on Privacy Chief global privacy officer at Proctor & Gamble expands on the company's approach to privacy, the need for consistency, and the challenges associated with keeping up with change around the world. |
InternetNews April 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
IBM Targets Regulatory Compliance To support enterprises who struggle to comply with the maze of government regulations for record-keeping, IBM Monday rolled out three new software products to help track and manage internal e-mails and instant messaging conversations. |
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. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas |
Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply. |
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. |
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Gartner: Firms Still Playing Catch-Up With Privacy Budget shortfalls, tangled international laws stymie enterprise privacy operations. |
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... |
Reason July 2001 Sara Rimensnyder |
Passing the Buck Republicans have managed a successful makeover of at least one of their party's stoniest aspects: They no longer prattle on like Ward Cleaver lecturing the Beaver about "personal responsibility." Nowadays, they're far more likely to prattle on about accountability... |
Managed Care July 2000 Collins, Hawks & Davis |
From Theory to Practice: Identifying Authentic Opinion Leaders to Improve Care Diffusion of Innovations and Opinion Leader theories can be translated into practical applications to improve health care delivery and financial performance by applying them to influence referral patterns and decrease variations in care. |
Managed Care March 2001 |
Does Cost-Sharing For Drugs Lead To Adverse Events? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that HMOs' increased use of cost-sharing to soften prescription drug expenses may have actually increase overall medical costs over the long term. |
Managed Care December 2005 |
Pharmacy Cost Increases Below Medical for the First Time in Four Years According to a survey of 70 health care insurers, prescription costs are expected to increase at a lower rate than medical costs during the next 12 months. |
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Janis Mara |
Companies Alter Privacy Policies Many online companies have been tweaking their privacy policies. |
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 September 2002 |
Aetna Chief Wants Coverage For Genetic Tests The CEO of the country's largest for-profit HMO has jumped with both feet into the national discussion about genetic testing's place in health care. |
U.S. Banker August 2001 |
Credit Unions Get Bum Rap on Privacy Letter to the editor about the article "Credit Unions, Consumers' Friends?" |