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HIPAA

ALSO CALLED: HIPPA and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
DEFINITION: HIPAA is the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. There are two sections to the Act. HIPAA Title I deals with protecting health insurance coverage for people who lose or change jobs. HIPAA Title II includes an administrative simplification section which deals with  … 
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Document Solutions IP Faxing versus Conventional Faxing: A Critical Analysis
sponsored by Premiere Global Services
WHITE PAPER: This white paper uses examples in three industries with the heaviest fax usage - finance, healthcare, and insurance - to demonstrate costs and risks that are shared across all industries.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008
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How to Disappoint Your HIPAA Auditors and Gain the Respect of Your Board of Directors
sponsored by CertifiedMail.com
WHITE PAPER: One of the consequences of HIPAA is that it makes all kinds of medical research more difficult that's because people are more reluctant to participate as subjects and it is more difficult to reach the right people to request their participation.
Posted: 08 Oct 2008 | Published: 07 Oct 2008
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Why Your Organization Needs to Focus on Outbound Content
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on the need to monitor and manage outbound content and discusses the key drivers that are making it necessary.
Posted: 08 Oct 2008 | Published: 07 Oct 2008
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how desktop virtualization will provide IT administrators with improved ability and availability, allowing for efficient and effective IT management.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Malware: Just What You Need to Know
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains insights and tips regarding malware and more specifically how to protect the networks from the malware.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Published: 07 Oct 2008
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Turning the Compliance Challenge into a Business Advantage
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: New rules have spawned an army of consultants, vendors and solutions to address the "compliance" problem. Read this paper to learn how to turn the compliance challenge into a business advantage.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to present the unique considerations that virtualization presents to regulatory and standards compliance, and then prescriptively describe how to mitigate risks.
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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Achieving Data Privacy in the Enterprise
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the need for data privacy, and it offers an overview of the issues that must be considered and addressed when organizations look to implement a data privacy solution.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008
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Securing and Integrating File Transfers over the Internet
sponsored by Momentum Systems
WHITE PAPER: For most organizations moving external file exchanges to the Internet is unchartered territory. Read this paper to learn how to secure and integrate file transfers over the internet.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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HIPAA and Beyond: How to Effectively Safeguard Electronic Protected Health Information
sponsored by Lumension Security
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how to go beyond HIPAA by showing how to use HIPAA as the starting point for your security program, and then using best practices and Lumension Security solutions to improve your overall security posture.
Posted: 15 Aug 2008 | Published: 15 Aug 2008
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Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations worldwide.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Getting in Compliance with Government Data Regulations by Leveraging Online Security Technology
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WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about encryption technologies (Secure Sockets Layer or SSL Certificates) developed by some companies to protect the data that identity thieves target.
Posted: 25 Jul 2008 | Published: 16 Jun 2008
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Oracle Database Vault
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WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database Vault is the industry's leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Transparent Solutions for Security and Compliance
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database 11g Release 1 provides the industry's most advanced data security capabilities with security solutions that work transparently with existing applications while addressing mandatory requirements found in regulations.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Unauthorized Applications: Taking Back Control
sponsored by Sophos Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why it is important for businesses to control unauthorized applications such as instant Messaging, VoIP, games and peer-to-peer file-sharing and how malware protection is the simplest and most cost-effective solution.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
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Effective Discharge Begins at Admission: A Patient Placement Systems White Paper
sponsored by StatCom
WHITE PAPER: Effective discharges begin with admissions and by implementing technology such as a discharge referral system, hospitals and post-acute care facilities can manage the patient flow process at a holistic and comprehensive level.
Posted: 06 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Identity Compliance Reference Model
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on three of the most important regulatory compliance mandates Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA).
Posted: 06 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Forrester Research: Improving Application Deployments - How an Application Delivery Architecture Can Help Businesses Overcome Deployment Challenges
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Today's businesses must operate in a drastically changing environment. Forrester found most companies are not well equipped to reorient IT as a critical driver of top line success. This report showcases the results of an April 2007 Forrester survey.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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Compliance for Healthcare Organizations
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: i365 disk-to-disk backup and recovery technology, coupled with consulting and educational services, provides you with data protection that helps assure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Posted: 24 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise, 2008
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper overviews a survey completed by Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting that analyzes the legal, financial, and regulatory risks associated with outbound email in large enterprises.
Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Business Process Management: Achieving Greater Process Automation
sponsored by ILOG, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how a business rule management system (BRMS) can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage.
Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Network Faxing and HIPAA: Security and Privacy in the Health Care Industry
sponsored by Castelle
WHITE PAPER: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) prescribes new health care industry rules and recommendations for the handling and transmission of patient health information.
Posted: 26 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Server-Based Vs. Web-Based Medical Software
sponsored by AdvancedMD
WHITE PAPER: The web-based systems can provide increased data security, access to data anywhere, anytime, and superior office efficiency-benefits not matched by software-based systems.
Posted: 13 Feb 2008 | Published: 12 Feb 2008
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How to select a KVM over IP system to assist with HIPAA compliance
sponsored by Avocent
WHITE PAPER: Effective security for health care information requires a multi-layered approach. Physical, logical and operational security are essential ingredients for successful compliance with HIPAA.
Posted: 08 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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HIPAA DEFINITION (continued): …  the standardization of healthcare-related information systems. In the information technology industries, this section is what most people mean when they refer to HIPAA. HIPAA establishes mandatory regulations that require extensive changes to the way that health providers conduct business.

HIPAA seeks to establish standardized mechanisms for electronic data interchange (EDI), security, and confidentiality of all healthcare-related data. The Act mandates: standardized formats for … 
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