insurance health care
Sicker and Poorer - The Consequences of Being Uninsured: A Review of the Research on the Relationship Between Health Insurance, Medical Care Use, Health, Work, and Income
White Paper Health services research conducted over the past 25 years makes a compelling case that having health insurance or using more medical care would improve the health of the uninsured. The literature's broad range of conditions, populations, and... [07 Jul 2005]
Covering New Americans: A Review of Federal and State Policies Related to Immigrants' Eligibility and Access to Publicly Funded Health Insurance
White Paper It also reviews actions states can take to encourage enrollment of eligible immigrants in public health coverage and to improve immigrants' access to care. This paper provides an overview of health coverage challenges facing immigrants, the federal... [20 May 2005]
Biscom Delivery Server and HIPAA Compliance
White Paper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, was enacted by the US Congress in 1996 to enable better access to health insurance, reduce fraud and abuse, and lower the overall cost of... [15 May 2008]
HIPAA Privacy Requirements for Group Health Plans and Plan Sponsors
White Paper These regulations (the “Rules”), which go into effect April 14, 2003, govern the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information, whether electronic, paper, or oral (“protected health information” or “PHI”) by health care... [03 Jul 2008]
Sul America Health Care Finds Prescription for Productivity in TIBCO's BPM Software
White Paper With nearly 1.8 million customers, Sul America Health Care is Brazil's largest insurance provider. Sul America Health Care redesigned its paper-based reimbursement process flow and deployed it on TIBCO's BPM software. [09 Jun 2007]
Medical Records & Public Networks
White Paper Health care organizations must make a reasonable effort to maintain the privacy of patients’ medical information according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Fair Health Information Practices Act of 1997. [25 Feb 2004]
HIPAA and AccessMaster: a Software Tool for Healthcare Security
White Paper It is a set of regulations to make sure that people have health care insurance after they leave a job. It summarizes parts of the act and explains how Evidian's SSO and security products can help a health care provider or government agency assure... [10 Apr 2008]
Can IT save us from Big Brother?
News Aiming to follow those principles while still tapping today's technology, IBM demonstrated what it termed a "Hippocratic database" in which a sample health care database returned results based on the right to know of the individual making the query. [11 Apr 2003]
EDS Gives Idaho the Flexibility to Manage Change without Impacting Customer Service
White Paper After the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, health care providers across Idaho knew they would eventually have to adopt HIPAA-compliant Medicaid claim forms. [03 Jul 2008]
HIPAA Privacy Protections In The Workplace
White Paper Contrary to what many employers think, the applicability of HIPAA extends beyond hospitals, health care providers, and health insurance companies and affects all employers in a variety of ways. HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and... [01 Nov 2004]
XEROX Case Study: Health Insurance Plan Administrators, Inc.
White Paper Health Insurance Plan Administrators, Inc.is a for-profit entity owned by HIP Health Plan of New York, one of the largest not-for-profit health care companies in the United States. Health Insurance Plan Administrators wanted to establish an... [18 Jul 2008]
CA's eTrust PKI Helps Neighborhood Health Plan Secure Email and Address HIPAA Compliance
White Paper Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), an affiliate of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, is a not-for-profit health maintenance organization (HMO). Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). By using Computer Associates eTrust PKI, NHP can... [10 Apr 2008]
HIPAA: the Critical Role of Strong Authentication
White Paper 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]
Privacy, Security, Personal Health Records and the Enterprise
White Paper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is federal legislation that is little known and even less understood outside the health care industry. The legislation's original provisions focused on protecting the privacy... [10 Apr 2008]
The Seven Steps to HIPAA Security Compliance
White Paper The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) directly impacts the entire health care industry - a $1.4 Trillion vertical. HIPAA is a comprehensive piece of legislation that includes the Administrative Simplification Title. [23 Nov 2007]
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