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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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Business Process Management: Achieving Greater Process Automation
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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: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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System I Security: What's the Right Amount?
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WHITE PAPER: This learning guide shows you how to compromise between operating efficiency and data integrity by exposing new security attacks, offering password protection tips, and providing a checklist for your System i security plan.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Hosted Solution Offers a Better Option for Medical Practice Management and Billing
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CASE STUDY: AdvancedMD's Web-based solution facilitated centralized management and deployment, and the use of AJAX programming techniques improved application responsiveness.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Data Protection Security Best Practices
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WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the data and information security issues associated with personal computers.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Oracle Database 11g Security with Forrester: Access Control Webcast
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WEBCAST: In this webcast, Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn explains the importance of implementing strong internal database controls.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Tarari T2000 Content Processors
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Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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Business Process Automation in Healthcare
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WHITE PAPER: Solutions are available from Microsoft and partners to accelerate the development of standards-based, integrated healthcare solutions for both providers and insurance plans.
Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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E-Guide: Test your Compliance know-how
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WHITE PAPER: What is your compliance know-how? Take this quiz and find out.
Posted: 06 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge
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BROCHURE: This white paper is an introduction to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features.
Posted: 04 Nov 2008 | Published: 04 Nov 2008
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Special Report on Encryption
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NEWSLETTER: This white paper highlights gartner research centering on standards, features, and requirements for email encryption deployments. It also highlights a recommended best practice approach from sendmail.
Posted: 22 Oct 2008 | Published: 22 Oct 2008
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A Layered Security Strategy for Preventing Data Leakage, Theft and Insider Abuse
sponsored by Tizor
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the challenges of securing data across three key layers of the IT infrastructure-the perimeter, the endpoint and the data center (core data servers).
Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 17 Oct 2008
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Developing a Sustainable and Cost Effective IT Compliance Program
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how your organization can develop a proactive IT compliance program focused on sustainability and effectiveness and begin looking to the future and mitigating risk in the course of business.
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | Published: 17 Oct 2008
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Document Solutions IP Faxing versus Conventional Faxing: A Critical Analysis
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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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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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How to Disappoint Your HIPAA Auditors and Gain the Respect of Your Board of Directors
sponsored by DataMotion
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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Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment
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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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Case Study: Prudential Financial protects its brand with Symantec Data Loss Prevention
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CASE STUDY: Prudential chose the Vontu DLP solution from Symantec to identify and protect sensitive customer data, block and quarantine messages containing legal information and intellectual property and use workflow to efficiently delegate incident responses.
Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008
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FISMA, SOX, HIPAA, & PCI: Automate. Simplify. Move-on.
sponsored by Varonis
WEBCAST: Check out this webcast and learn how your company can achieve compliance by implementing automated access control solutions.
Posted: 12 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Achieving Data Privacy in the Enterprise
sponsored by SafeNet, Inc.
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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Fundamentals: Healthcare Solutions and Document Imaging
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WEBCAST: In this webcast, health insurance premiums are compared to rates of inflation with the rate of increases in premiums being the focal point.
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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. This paper examines such a solution.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Oracle Database Vault
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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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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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