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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Information Management in the Not-So-Distant Future of Health Care

AIIM

The classic example is the insurer that won’t pay for care that a doctor determines a patient needs. Insurers are about profit; doctors are about delivering the best care. Today, if you have a computer, you have a doctor – videoconference doctor visits routinely complement in-person ones. Electronic Health Record.

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Seeks Comment on Digital Innovation by Banks

Data Matters

electronic payments, check capture and online banking), the OCC lists some of the new technologies, the implementation of which may be hindered by ambiguous, burdensome or inflexible rules, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, biometrics, cloud computing and big data/analytics. Comments are due by August 3, 2020. 31, 2020).

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

She shared with me a copy of the lease, which included a fraudulent ID and even a vehicle insurance card for a Land Cruiser we got rid of like 15 years ago. For example, only recently did the three major consumer reporting bureaus allow all U.S. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS. .” ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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Extending intranets to hard-to-reach staff: Controlled documents kiosk example

ChiefTech

The IBF list the following examples of hard-to-reach staff: factory workers retail staff field engineers building inspectors consultants sales teams flight and rail workers catering staff building inspectors call centre representatives insurance assessors.

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What IG Professionals Should Know About the Internet of Bodies

ARMA International

Microchips are just one example of the increasing variety of smart devices that are near to, attached to, or reside inside the human body. Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform. These devices are no longer relegated to science fiction and spy thrillers.

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Podcast Episode 119: EFF on Expanding Researchers Rights and AT&T talks IoT Security Fails

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast, #119: Electronic Frontier Foundation General Counsel Kurt Opsahl joins us to talk about the Coders’ Rights Project. In this episode of the podcast, #119: Electronic Frontier Foundation General Counsel Kurt Opsahl joins us to talk about the Coders’ Rights Project. Read the whole entry. »

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