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• Report: Feds still haven't fined anyone for HIPAA violations - McKnight's Long Term Care News
  

  Report: Feds still haven't fined anyone for HIPAA violations McKnight's Long Term Care News, NY - 17 hours ago "There are no HIPAA cops out there looking for violations," said Abner Weintraub of the HIPAA Group, an Orlando-based consulting group. ...

• Workers at Bemis walk the picket line - WTHI
  

  Workers at Bemis walk the picket line WTHI, IN - 10 hours ago Workers said they feel like Bemis violated their HIPAA rights. "We come to work not for a paycheck. We bargain what we work for, we bargain our wages and ... Insurance issue prompts Bemis picket Terre Haute Tribune Star all 2 news articles

• The Most Common HIPAA Privacy Mistakes Employers Make - Workforce Management
  

  The Most Common HIPAA Privacy Mistakes Employers Make Workforce Management, Ca - Aug 24, 2008 Under the final HIPAA rules, employers may vary the amount of premium contributions required from employees as long as the wellness program meets certain ...

• Who's reading your medical files today? - Christian Science Monitor
  

  Who's reading your medical files today? Christian Science Monitor, MA - Aug 25, 2008 In fact, the privacy rule established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) legally permits healthcare providers to ...

• Congress needs to address health record privacy and consent - SmartBrief
  

  Congress needs to address health record privacy and consent SmartBrief, DC - 15 hours ago More than 600000 health- and data-related entities can legally take a look at your medical records under HIPAA. The form you sign at the doctor's office ...

• Opinion Piece Discusses Need For Stronger Privacy Measures For ... - Medical News Today (press release)
  

  Opinion Piece Discusses Need For Stronger Privacy Measures For ... Medical News Today (press release), UK - 16 hours ago Blevins writes that under HIPAA, personal health information can "flo[w] freely over the Internet between public health officials, health care providers, ...

• AMA Concerned: New ICD-10 Proposed Rule a Burden for Physicians - DOTmed.com (press release)
  

  AMA Concerned: New ICD-10 Proposed Rule a Burden for Physicians DOTmed.com (press release), NY - 5 hours ago "CMS' efforts to go full-steam ahead on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system without first pilot-testing the newest HIPAA electronic transaction form ...

• New Guide Helps Organizations Understand HIPAA and Fundraising - MarketWatch
  

  New Guide Helps Organizations Understand HIPAA and Fundraising MarketWatch - Aug 7, 2008 The HIPAA Effect: Considerations for Fundraising After the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, created by Changing Our World, ...

• digiMedical Solutions, Inc. Signs Contract With Dr. Steven Bello ... - MarketWatch
  

  digiMedical Solutions, Inc. Signs Contract With Dr. Steven Bello ... MarketWatch - 19 hours ago The Company's digital prescription software suite meets HIPAA and DEA requirements and protects the pharmacist from errors caused by difficult-to-read ...

• Varolii Launches Adherence Outreach—Automated Patient ... - Business Wire (press release)
  

  Varolii Launches Adherence Outreach—Automated Patient ... Business Wire (press release), CA - Aug 26, 2008 By enabling delivery of automated, HIPAA-compliant communications to patients over the phone, through text messages or email, Adherence Outreach helps ...

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• Massachusetts 20th State to Enter Medical Liability "Crisis," Says AMA
  High-risk specialists are reducing their practices by as much as 50%.
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• FTC Launches Probe of PBM Policies
  
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• Physicians Told to Remain Vigilant About HMO Settlement Promises
  Aetna and Cigna must demonstrate better business and patient care practices agreed to as part of a class-action settlement.
  Medscape Medical News
• Expression of MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC, and MUC6 in Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia, Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma, Adenocarcinoma With Mixed Subtypes, and Mucinous Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma of the Lung
  The expression of certain mucins might be associated with the progression of adenocarcinoma of the lungs.
  American Journal of Clinical Pathology
• May 31, 2004
  Keep up-to-date on the major health business and policy issues. This edition: Doctors urged to apologize for malpractice mistakes, insurers to pay for doctor-patient emails, and more.
  Medscape Money & Medicine
• Tablet Splitting: Evaluating Appropriateness for Patients
  The idea of splitting tablets has centered on patients using a device to halve their drug costs.
  Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
• Cost of Heart Failure in Patients Receiving Beta-Blockers and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
  The American Heart Association conservatively estimates that, in 2002, costs related to heart failure will be comprised of $US21.4 billion in direct costs and $US1.8 billion in indirect costs for a total of $US23.2 billion.
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• Hackers resort to 'sick' kidnap spam
  Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos.
• Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password
  Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses.
• Four quick tips for choosing an IM security product
  Instant messaging (IM) has become an increasingly useful business tool for modern corporations. Data from a Forrester Research survey suggests that 71 percent of businesses will invest in real-time messaging this year.
• Call out a phisher, get attacked by malware
  Users tired of phishing attacks who retaliate by talking back are being targeted with exploits designed to hijack their computers, a security researcher said Tuesday.
• Update: U.S. border-crossing database raises concerns
  A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15 years could have huge privacy implications for U.S. residents, one privacy group said.
• IE8 to get privacy features
  Microsoft on Monday described some new privacy features that will come with IE8, the next release of its browser. The features are designed to make it easier for people to delete and control information about their Web browsing history.
• Microsoft completes Small Business Server 2008
  Microsoft on Friday said it has completed development on Small Business Server 2008 and that the software will hit its targeted ship date of Nov. 12.
• Microsoft confesses to posting a flawed update
  Microsoft Corp. re-released one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday, explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download center last week.
• Red Hat admits breach of its servers, Fedora
  Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages.
• Eight crazy e-mail hoaxes millions have fallen for
  Congratulations, you won the lottery in a country whose name you can't even pronounce! A wealthy oil executive in a far-off land wants to give you millions of dollars, right now! Sexy girls want to meet you!

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• HIPAA video
  Good video about network security, mentions HIPAA, security and the economics of spam. ABSTRACT Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search [...]
• 11 Years of HIPAA and it’s still not easy for consumers
  NPR did a good audio story on Morning Edition about the current state of HIPAA that is worth a listen. Holding on to health insurance can be a big challenge if you have a chronic disease or history of illness. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Eleven years ago this month, Congress passed [...]
• HIPAA Checklists
  Get started with HIPAA compliance by checking out these free checklists. You may want to build your own customized checklist when developing your strategy for complying with HIPAA. Bookmark this page, since it will be updated when we find more useful free HIPAA checklists. Free HIPAA Compliance Checklists Official CMS Provider HIPAA Checklist [PDF] CAL HIPAA - over [...]
• Five Essential HIPAA Books for Beginners
  Here are five highly rated books (all available from Amazon.com) that are full of useful information for people who are new to the world of HIPAA compliance. If you are just learning the basics about HIPAA, these are a good place to start building your expertise. #1: Getting Started with HIPAA 608 pages - ISBN: 1592000541 Read [...]
• Top 10 highest-rated HIPAA books for IT Managers
  These are the top 10 essential HIPAA books for IT managers to read. Each of these popular titles was rated most highly useful by the cutomers at Amazon. #1 Most Highly Rated HIPAA book for IT Managers: The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities Amazon.com’s description of this book: The [...]
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• IntApp and Recommind Partner to Strengthen Confidentiality Controls for Law Firms (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
  PALO ALTO, Calif.----IntApp, Inc., the leading provider of risk management, time capture and integration software for the legal industry, and Recommind, the leading provider of enterprise search, email management and eDiscovery systems for enterprises and law firms, today jointly announced a partnership to deliver enhanced information access and confidentiality controls for the legal industry.
• Optimizing Virtualization Success in a Time of Virtual Sprawl (Linux World)
  "Go forth and multiply" has a new interpretation in the IT world: "Go forth and virtualize." It is no surprise that enterprises today are adopting virtualization technologies in droves, not only because of the cost reduction and efficiency it delivers, but for the flexibility the technology delivers as well. read more
• 10:21 a.m.— Public hearings ongoing at Legislature (Pacific Daily News)
  Public hearings are ongoing at the Legislature before the Committee on Aviation, Federal Affairs, Labor, Housing, Banking and Insurance this morning.
• Did You Know? (American National Standards Institute)
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• System eliminating volumes of medical records (The Times West Virginian)
  Dr. Silvina Padro picked up a rubber-bound file as big a the New York City phone book, stuffed with a stack of paper that represents one patient’s journey through treatment at the Monongahela Valley Association of Health Centers Fairmont Clinic.
• TriGeo Wins Campus Technology 2008 Innovator Award for Ohio Dominican University Information Security Renovation Project (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
  TriGeo Network Security, the leading provider of security information and event management technology for midmarket enterprises, received Campus Technology's 2008 Innovator Award for its strategic involvement in Ohio Dominican University's information security renovation project. The university selected TriGeo Security Information Manager to automatically monitor network actions and enforce IT ...
• VirtualHealth Technologies, Inc., Announces That Its Associate, Private Access, Will Be Partnering with Genetic ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Private Access, Inc., and Genetic Alliance, a 501 organization, announced today that they have formed a novel public-private partnership designed to simultaneously protect patients' privacy rights while creating a faster and more cost effective way for researchers to connect with patients in order to find causes and treatments for chronic illnesses and diseases.
• HHS Proposes Adoption Of ICD-10 Code Sets And Updated Electronic Transaction Standards (Medical News Today)
  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a long-awaited proposed regulation that would replace the ICD-9-CM code sets now used to report health care diagnoses and procedures with greatly expanded ICD-10 code sets, effective Oct. 1, 2011.
• ASK AMY (Washington Post)
  DEAR AMY: I was hoping you could put something in your column about office attire. I work for a major accounting firm, and the new college kids coming in need to go to a class to learn what "office casual" really means.
• Working with Regulatory Distraction (Computer Technology Review)
  What can we say about regulatory compliance? The heyday is over. However, the hangover still lingers. Most IT professionals now notice that the big incremental spending on security systems and consultants to comply with government regulations and industry rules is behind us. The hype is over.

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