The Privacy Rule is a confusing, complex and broad-reaching regulatory requirement that will affect every aspect of the health care system for many years to come. Employers face dramatic challenges in adjusting their operations to this rule, even though providing health care benefits typically is a minute portion of a...
The Bush administration has decided to implement the controversial medical privacy rules issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, but is leaving the door open for possible future modifications. The Bush administration has decided to implement the controversial medical privacy rules...
The Department of Health and Human Services has delayed the effective date of its controversial medical records privacy rule until April 14. The Department of Health and Human Services has delayed the effective date of its controversial medical records privacy rule until April...
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, announced on March 21, 2002, several proposed common-sense revisions to the HIPAA privacy rules. The privacy rules affect a variety of entities, including health care providers, health The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary,...
A RULE PROMULGATED BY the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to protect patient privacy in the age of electronic record-sharing will cost the health care industry as much as $17.6 billion over 10 years, the department has estimated. But A...
Workers' compensation and auto insurance claims will be delayed and settlements made more expensive due to new privacy rules finalized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, insurance groups said. The American Insurance Association a Workers' compensation and auto insurance claims...
> The HHS final rule governing control and disclosure of personal health information scheduled to go into effect in February and deferred for at least 60 days by the Bush Administration regulatory review may be subject to White House-- directed modification without going through the formal rule-making process, Georgetown University...
The Federal Courts Improvement Act of 2004 (S. 2396) would amend both Title 28 and Title 11 of the U.S. Code. Section 1412 of Title 28, dealing with venue changes applicable to both cases and proceedings in bankruptcy, now clarifies that the district court, "on its own motion or on...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Dec. 22--After an outcry over privacy invasions on the Internet last year, tens of thousands of irate consumers contacted electronic information broker Lexis-Nexis Inc., demanding that the company remove their names and Social Se SAN JOSE, Calif.--Dec. 22--After an outcry over...
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and Human Services made the right move last week when it proposed further changes in a controversial medical records privacy regulation. While no one can argue with the need to take every reasonable step to protect patient THE DEPARTMENT...
WASHINGTON-Risk managers and workers compensation insurers generally like new the medical records privacy regulations-as far as they go. But the new regulations, published by the Department of Health and Human Services in the Aug. 14 Federal Regis WASHINGTON-Risk managers and workers compensation insurers...
The US Federal Trade Commission FTC, in a move that has disappointed privacy activists in the USA, has decided not to take any action against Amazon.com for privacy violations (see also, Information Systems Auditor, March 2001, page 16). However, t The US Federal Trade Commission FTC,...
Seven Republican senators are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to reconsider its controversial rule on medical privacy due to go into effect later this week, a position shared with the insurance industry. In a letter to HHS Seven...
Workers' comp insurers need to circle April 14, 2003 on their planning calendars. That's the date that most healthcare providers must comply with medical privacy regulations released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After furio Workers' comp insurers need to...
State insurance authorities are behind most federal regulators in establishing standards for safeguarding consumer privacy under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the General Accounting Office says. A GAO report said that while most states have adopted r State insurance authorities are behind most federal regulators in...
An organization representing credit bureaus and consumer information services has mounted a legal attack on new privacy regulations that they say could hurt their business of selling nonfinancial personal data on consumers. The Individual Referenc An organization representing credit bureaus and consumer ...
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