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- Sun showing NHIN work at HIMSS
- Sun's role covered the software, NHIN-Connect, which includes its GlassFish open source application platform, the Java Composite Application Platform Suite CAPS SOA Platform, and the Sun Java Identity Management suite. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Hipaa, Social Security, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Regulations, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Endpoint Security Considerations for Achieving HIPAA Compliance
- The new number-one priority for America is to improve the efficiency of the nation's healthcare system-especially in the information technology arena. Experts say rising health costs are the main cause of long-term national budget problems, and that computerization of health records will drive down costs. Computerization will also bring an...
- Tags: Security, Health Care, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Community Health: Compliant Reporting and Transfer of Information From a Legacy Database
- CHNCT works with several thousand healthcare providers, all of which must be provided with confidential information on a regular basis. This information includes patient data, medical claims data, and authorization and referral data. Because Crystal Reports does not incorporate the ability to encrypt those reports, HIPAA regulations prevent CHNCT from...
- Tags: Database, DataMotion, Health Care, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Case studies 2008-12-20
- Healthcare: How to Disappoint Your HIPAA Auditors and Gain the Respect of Your Board of Directors (not Necessarily in That Order)
- With HIPAA audits now randomized, one must be prepared for them every day. And with state regulations requiring compliancebreach reporting, one must become their own auditor. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the 1996 federal regulation that mandated healthdata privacy. This regulation requires compliance by all insurers...
- Tags: DataMotion, Board, Health Care, Board Of Directors, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2008-10-31
- How to disappoint your HIPAA auditors and gain the respect of your board of directors (Not necessarily in that order)
- With HIPAA audits now randomized, you must be prepared for them every day. And with state regulations requiring compliance-breach reporting, you must become your own auditor. This regulation requires compliance by all insurers and health care providers, including physician's offices, hospitals, health plans, employers, public health authorities, life insurers,...
- Tags: Public Health, Board, Health Care, Board Of Directors, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-08-19
- Achieving a Clean Bill of Health in HIPAA Compliance With Check Point Solutions
- Healthcare organizations face both opportunities and challenges from today's complex, interconnected environment in which electronic information is collected and exchanged at an ever-increasing rate. While electronic information exchange has the potential to deliver profound benefits, it also increases the exposure of sensitive information. Adding to the challenge are new technologies...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Health Care Company, Health Care, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2008-06-18
- Dignan's Memo: Evaluating Google Health
- Google Health launched on May 19. ZDNet's Larry Dignan likes the idea of an online medical records system but says that Google Health's privacy policy is not regulated by HIPAA, which is a cause for concern.
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Dignan, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Regulations, Government, Fill In
- Videos 2008-05-26
- RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!
- Interesting article from Robert "RSnake" Hansen yesterday on one of Google's new innovations, the Google Health application. Yeah, imagine that, Google wants to own the content of your medical records, too! You'd think that Google would want to avoid this due to HIPPA complications, as this is a true example of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Medical Record, RSnake, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- MedicAlert Expands Service and Protects Critical Data for Members Worldwide
- For fifty years, MedicAlert has helped save lives by providing emergency responders and healthcare practitioners. However, with the rise of HIPAA mandates and other standards from similar global regulatory bodies, MedicAlert decided it could no longer preserve that privacy with limited homegrown security technology. In order to provide extended member...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., MedicAlert, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-05-07
- Biscom Delivery Server and HIPAA Compliance
- 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 health care in the United States. Title II of HIPAA, the...
- Tags: Health Care, Server, HIPAA Compliance, Biscom, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-03-28
- AdvaMed says of health care inflation, not me
- We have reached the stage in the health care debate where everyone is pointing the blame, and pointing it elsewhere. It's like the Family Circus Not Me. Who did it, Billy? Not me. In this case the Not Me is a study, from AdvaMed,...
- Tags: Device Manufacturer, Insurance Company, Health Care, Inflation, AdvaMed, General Device Inflation, Insurance, Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Regulations, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Achieving HIPAA Compliance With Enterprise Single Sign-On
- When the U.S. 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. Congress set a series of deadlines for healthcare institutions to comply with the new...
- Tags: Security, Patient, Health Care, Single Sign-on, Imprivata, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-01-08
- Today's Debate: Can we end fear of privacy breaches?
- Today's Financial Times has a long feature about search engines and privacy, which notes among other things that even Microsoft is now lobbying for a new law mandating privacy standards. (Google wants them to apply worldwide.) What's most interesting to me, though, is a chart, created from...
- Tags: Privacy, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Compliance: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
- HIPAA requires healthcare organizations and businesses that manage patient health information to protect the confidentiality and security of all health data managed by that organization. HIPAA compliance requirements, coupled with advances in electronic exchange of information, put significant additional technical and administrative burdens on the healthcare organizations of all sizes.
- Tags: Health Insurance, Compliance, Health Care, Biscom, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Regulatory Compliance, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2007-04-17
- How SpringCM is Serving Healthcare: Security, Privacy and HIPAA Policies
- This SpringCM case study discusses the privacy and security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA. It explains how SpringCM is helping a New York-based psychiatric hospital and other health care organizations better manage their HIPAA compliance obligations. Download the paper to learn how SpringCM's affordable monthly...
- Tags: SpringCM, Security, Privacy, Health Care, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Addressing Healthcare Providers' HIPAA Compliance Issues
- With U.S. enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA now in full force, IT professionals responsible for helping to ensure compliance need access to cost-effective, end-to-end solutions for managing electronic protected health information. This paper describes how the Sun StorageTek Compliance Archiving System (the combination of a...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vignette Corp., Health Care, StorageTek, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Think Secure: Building Your Security-Minded Workforce
- The United States Federal Government is bound to provide information security awareness training by the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA.The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA requires that the health care industry provide privacy training to their employees. Financial institutions must comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act GLBA.The Sarbanes-Oxley...
- Tags: Getronics, FISMA, Health Care, Training, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, United States Federal Government, Regulatory Compliance, Hipaa, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Training And Certification, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-07-25
- Defined-Benefit Pension Plans: Current Problems and Future Challenges
- Lawmakers initially became concerned about workers' receipt of promised pension benefits after the failure of several large plans in the 1960s, which eventually led to the enactment in 1974 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA. That law specified minimum standards that pension plans must meet regarding participation, accrual...
- Tags: ERISA, Congressional Budget Office, Payroll Solutions, Regulations, Benefits, Quality, Government, Human Resources, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-07
- HIPAA: Remote Access Compliancy
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 have many healthcare providers questioning the validity of their organization's compliancy. The law has a very broad impact over many operations of the healthcare industry. This white paper provides an analysis of current HIPAA regulations that are impacting the healthcare IT...
- Tags: CrossTec Corp., Health Care, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Remote Access, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Archiving E-Mail: For Legal Reasons, Organizations Need to Bring Order to the Chaos of Electronic Communications Into Consideration
- Since the advent of numerous regulations, the public sector is required to maintain accurate and easily accessible archives of transactions and communications, including e-mail messages. Some procedures stipulate that these records remain available for up to seven years. Among the regulations impacting e-mail archiving are the Health Insurance Portability and...
- Tags: Electronic Communication, Archiving, Health Care, CDW Corp., U.S. Department Of Defense, Hipaa, E-mail, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Online Communications, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-07-01
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