Articles by Stephen Meltzer
Just like HIPPA is not HIPAA. Privacy is a very different thing than security. I am exploring a career move and I have been searching out and assessing possible privacy positions with many different types …
Press Release from HHS (July 13, 2010):
WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced final rules to help improve Americans’ health, increase safety and reduce health care costs through …
Press release from HHS:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, July 8, 2010
For more information about the proposed rule announced today visit http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2010-16718_PI.pdf
Contact: HHS Press Office(202) 690-6343
HHS Strengthens Health Information Privacy and Security through New Rules
New health privacy website launched
HHS …
Concurrent with its release of new rules, HHS has published a new web site with health data privacy and security resources.
From the new site:
Health Data Privacy and Security Resources
HHS respects the privacy of your personal …
Read Six Messy Database Breaches So Far In 2010.
The Massachusetts secretary of state’s office, which is charged with enforcing financial rules for investment companies, accidentally released confidential personal information earlier this year on 139,000 investment advisers registered with the state.
The data, including the …
Claiming that not enough has been done to protect the privacy rights of patients, the Rhode Island ACLU today filed suit against the R.I. Department of Health (DOH), challenging the inadequacy of rules the agency has …
TJX announced yesterday that it had settled the lawsuit on Friday. A lawyer for the Louisiana police retirement fund, which filed its lawsuit in Delaware, where Framingham-based TJX is incorporated, did not return calls seeking …
On June 25, 2010, federal district court judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a stipulated court order (.pdf) directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to delay …
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