Electronic Privacy Information Center

In 2013, former United States National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden laid bay that America had become a Dystopia of electronic surveillance and pushed to the forefront the question “does the American Constitution need to be amended to protect privacy rights in the digital age?” Less than a year later Americans are thrust at another crossroad with privacy rights vs. modern scientific medicine and technology by American poet, fiction writer, and journalist Susan Scutti article The…

business transactions with customers and vendors, and through these transactions, the data gets processed, collected and stored. The data collected and stored from transactions usually contains individual customer’s and vendors private and business information that must be protected and safeguarded by the company’s effective and efficient control systems. Incidents may happen to anyone, and data processed and collected from transaction may intentionally or unintentionally released to an…

telecommunications technology to help trading. It is a continuous optimization process which realization of electronic, digital, network-based transaction. In this process, it will supporting by the use of the Internet, extranet, e-mail, database, electronic catalogs and mobile phones to finish electronic funds transfer trade. According to Chaffey (2011), “All electronically mediated information exchanges between an organization and its external stakeholders.” Although the basic tools of…

HITECH The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical health (HITECH) Act of 2009 was designed to decrease healthcare costs, improve health outcomes, coordinate care, and protect personal health information in an electronic format. Three of the core programs associated with HITECH include: establishing guidelines to address personal health information security breach notifications and develop guidelines to be utilized in an electronic environment, Medicare incentives for meaningful…

military will need to know certain information. It will be important to keep your health information updated. Print a hardcopy of these worksheets, scan and save the information to a USB file separate from your computer, or do both. Remember to password protect your files. Health Care Law The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your protected health information, or information that relates to your health…

Act tasked the ONC and the HITPC with studying technical and policy approaches to improving the security and privacy of electronic health information. Developing such solutions will probably require a multifaceted strategy that involves technical, educational, legal, and policy interventions by many public and private stakeholders. For example, most breaches of security in health information systems result from simple human error or carelessness, not from technical failings or outside hacking.…

home healthcare facilities, and a world well-known AIDS treatment center. My HSO has always enjoyed an excellent reputation, until recently someone downloaded the names of 4,000 HIV+ patients and sent the list all around the world. The board of trustees blames me for this unforeseen incident and they are so furious that they wanted me fired. I have convinced them that it would be wise to keep me to fix the HSO’s Management Information System (MIS). I have only two options in front of me at the…

After the tremendous development in the field of information technology in the late twentieth century, people have witnessed an increase in the speed of information exchange and exchange with different parts of the world. There are many questions revolving around what has happened recently related to this new technology. Humans are at the center of all of this new progress and, sometimes, there are negative effects. Modern technology has become a double-edged sword. The difference between…

exchange and disclosure of the individual health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule was enacted on August 14 2002 .The rule applies to the health care providers, health care clearinghouses and other medical facilities. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of personal health information and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without patient authorization.…

On September 11, 2001 the US World Trade Center was under attack from terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda. The Twin Towers were barraged by two planes, one for each building. Meanwhile another plane targeted the Pentagon, and the last one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. 3,000 people died in this event. This attack triggered major U.S. initiative to fight terrorism. From this new-founded goal, the Patriot Act was born. The Patriot Act gave new power to the U.S.…