The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) contains groundbreaking provisions to encourage the development of a national health information system through the establishment of standards. This paper compares statewide inpatient data systems to one standard--the Uniform Bill (UB)--to understand how standards have been used and how they can be improved. We recommend ch...

Some of the latest healthcare buzzwords are e-health, m-health or telemedicine. Is this the latest fad or is there indeed a lasting wow factor? The use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to support the achievement of health outcomes, namely, e-health has the potential to transform the manner in which health services are delivered. A plethora of applications are emerging though...

4. Initiatives on the internalisation of external costs in transport should aim at ensuring that all health costs are taken into account, including physical inactivity. This should therefore be part of the future European initiatives which will be taken to ensure the full internalisation of external costs as foreseen by the European Commission‘s White Paper on transport. 3 WHO’s health economic...

The Office for Civil Rights issued its long awaited final regulations modifying the HIPAA privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification rules--the HIPAA Megarule. The new HIPAA rules will require revisions to Notice of Privacy Practices, changes to business associate agreements, revisions to HIPAA privacy and security policies and procedures, and an overall assessment of HIPAA complia...

As in the case of brick and mortar firms, the Federal Trade Commission encourages online companies to post privacy notices and to honor promises in them. This study examines how seals of approval are used by corporations that conduct business online. Specifically, this study found that firms are using TRUSTe, BBBOnline, WebTrust, and HIPAA seals to demonstrate their compliances with online priv...

1 Corresponding author Abstract Healthcare is an important industry that touches most, if not all of us. Healthcare is noted for using leading edge technologies and embracing new scientific discoveries to enable better cures for diseases and better means to enable early detection of most life threatening diseases. However, the healthcare industry globally, and in the US specifically, has been e...

Statisticians are being asked to determine what methods must be applied to protect the privacy of research subjects. Careless, venal, or malicious release of confidential data can be harmful to research subjects and to the entire research enterprise. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), statisticians may be asked to certify the adequacy of nondisclosure methods...

One would think that the enactment of the HIPAA, with its mandates on data security and privacy, would have brought a major shift in the security management practices within the US healthcare. Unfortunately, recent industry reports indicate low levels of regulatory compliance, thus raising security concerns for the US health IT infrastructure. This research develops a regulatory compliance mode...