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Trust Nobody; Train Everybody

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Serious legal consequences can result from employees' lack of awareness of new procedures for privacy and security issues due to HIPAA. But implementing the policies and educating employees is costly and requires expertise. One outsourcer, however, has a unique, low-cost,

Rx for Secure Patient Data Collection

Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer

Outsourcing patient data must satisfy a hospital's stringent security requirements. One ASP has developed a prescription for protecting patient data on the Web.

Smoothing Over the Privacy Potholes in BPO Outsourcing

Rebecca S. Eisner, Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

New U.S. laws have made privacy and data security a risky business. Be scared. Be very scared. Here's why.

Fewer HIPAA Headaches

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

April 2002. The impending deadline now shaping the future of privacy and security of patient information in the healthcare industry finds some organizations facing formidable challenges, for they must soon comply with the initial guidelines and standards set forth in

How to Get Ready for HIPAA

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

From the moment of his 1999 signature approving two-thirds of the proposed HIPAA regulations, President Clinton tossed the healthcare industry a hot potato. So now the industry is forced to start changing the way it was doing business.

Healthcare’s Biggest Challenge

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Behind closed doors, discussions about the biggest challenge for both providers and payers in the healthcare industry are not about HIPAA compliance. It's about how to be profitable. Given the numerous industry problems besetting companies, revenue has been drastically cut,

Digital Rights Management

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Born in August 1999, TrustData Solutions Corporation has already matured enough to take giant steps in the eSecurity arena. HIPAA experts agree TrustData's solutions are probably the most advanced technology today for allowing companies to enable HIPAA compliance.

Fly Like an Eagle

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

As human genome mapping starts to produce results and new drugs are developed to eradicate or control some of life's most significant challenges, the spotlight will be on pharmaceutical companies. Time to market will drive their efforts. But the pharmaceutical

The Long Arm of the Law

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Ecommerce between customer and buyer can be tricky. But the degree of difficulty increases when those two partners reside in different countries. If there's an ocean of difference between the laws of the two nations, the transaction must adhere to

Corona: Model City in Proactive Approach to GASB 34

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

When the recession snowball rolled downhill in California, it stopped at the city level. Because California laws require the state to reallocate portions of local property taxes in order to balance the budget, cities were faced with a choice: cut

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