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whitepaper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) were signed into law in 1996 with the following provisions, guarantee health insurance coverage of employees, reduce healthcare fraud and abuse, simplify administration to improve...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The goal of HIPAA is to reduce the cost and the administrative burden of health care by providing a specific standard, wherever possible, for electronic transmission of administrative and financial transactions.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper From a Healthcare Organization perspective, HIPAA was enacted to reduce costs, complexity and delays through administrative simplification, as well as to reduce the potential for security and privacy breaches.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, among the law’s many provisions was the establishment of formal regulations designed to protect the confidentiality and security of patient information.
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Understand the role that Acts like HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Sarbanes-Oxley play in comprehensive security planning Langin of Langin Law and TechRepublic's Bob Artner, to learn why consumer phishing is swiftly becoming an urgent corporate...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper In this Webcast, we discuss how some of the specific requirements for disaster recovery solutions in current compliance laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. Depending on the specific law that governs your organization's type of data, you need...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Get this vital white paper and learn what to expect when your organization must comply with HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and others. This important white paper discusses the major regulations in place to protect confidential customer information, uphold...
[26 Nov 2007]
whitepaper This Q1 Labs white paper explains the technology requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule and describes the activities that covered entities must undertake to achieve compliance under the law. Learn how the comprehensive surveillance, integrated...
[01 Aug 2007]
whitepaper In response to these concerns, and to facilitate more widespread use of Internet technologies in all aspects of healthcare, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in 1996.
[17 Jul 2007]
whitepaper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is technically known as Public Law 104-191 of 1996. This paper will explain how an organization should go about assessing its current state of security preparedness by using the...
[28 Apr 2006]
whitepaper The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - HIPAA otherwise known as the Kennedy-Kessenbaum act is a law that's primary intention is to safeguard a patient's Protected Health Information, also known as PHI.
[28 Apr 2006]
whitepaper With year two in full swing, the focus is to make the process more efficient across departments AND across multiple regulations - SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, Basel II, FISMA and the list continues. With a year of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 behind you...
[19 Jan 2006]
whitepaper The paper outlines that HIPAA is in direct conflict with state law. HIPAA provides a good rule of thumb for settling differences between state and federal law: the rule that affords greater protection to patient information, or greater rights to...
[22 Aug 2005]
whitepaper The HIPAA Administrative Simplification law was passed at the request of the healthcare industry, and the standards apply to the whole industry. This article informs about the Health Care Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
[02 Aug 2005]
whitepaper The focal point of this paper is the HIPAA law, which requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt national uniform standards for certain transactions. The law requires that the standards be followed any time these transactions are...
[02 Jul 2005]
whitepaper This white paper provides an analysis of current HIPAA regulations that are impacting the healthcare IT industry. Specifically, the paper discusses vulnerabilities associated with remote control software and provides a solution for secure remote...
[08 Jun 2005]
whitepaper The legislative goals of HIPAA work in conjunction with those of all healthcare organizations. This paper focuses on ROI from HIPAA through Process Improvement. The back-office and boardroom challenge has remained how those in health care would...
[31 Oct 2004]
whitepaper Today, enterprises that manage patient information are challenged by how they will comply with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which was signed into law August 1996.
[01 Mar 2004]
whitepaper Standard procedures for group health plans generally are designed to protect the privacy of medical records so, therefore to comply with the HIPAA rules, employers should formalize their procedures. The restricted flow of health care information...
[01 Mar 2004]
whitepaper Health care providers, health care clearinghouses and health plans are directly governed by these requirements, and the government regulators who wrote the HIPAA rules emphasize that they do not have statutory authority to regulate employers.
[01 Mar 2004]
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