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Analysis of Online Health Care Privacy Policies Pre- and Post-HIPAA
From: dave () farber net
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:07 -0700
..... Forwarded Message ....... From: "Annie I. Anton" <aianton () mindspring com> To: dave () farber net Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:38:47 -0400 Subj: Analysis of Online Health Care Privacy Policies Pre- and Post-HIPAA Dear Dave, The Privacy Place has released a report that investigates the online privacy practices of three categories of health care Web sites -- pharmaceuticals, health insurance companies and online drugstores -- and presents our analysis of 24 online privacy documents from nine institutions. Our study provides a unique perspective on the state of privacy practices before and after HIPAA's enactment, by comparing our current results to our pre-HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) study of these same institutions' privacy practices. We discuss how HIPAA's introduction has resulted in more descriptive and detailed privacy policies but has not necessarily improved the online privacy practices of these organizations. The results of this analysis may be helpful for forecasting how future legislation will affect the state of online privacy in other domains. The URL is: http://www.theprivacyplace.org/papers/hipaa_7_24_submit.pdf Thought the paper may be of interest to you. Best wishes, Annie Antón -- ______________________________________________________________________ Annie I. Antón, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Software Engineering Director, The Privacy Place (http://theprivacyplace.org) Co-Director, Electronic Commerce Studio (http://ecommerce.ncsu.edu/studio) Co-Director, InfoSec@NCSU (http://ecommerce.ncsu.edu/infosec/) North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science 900 Main Campus Drive (Venture III: Suite 165) Raleigh, NC 27695-8207 U.S.A. ______________________________________________________________________ Office: 919.515.5764 Fax: 919.513.1895 Email: anton () csc ncsu edu URL: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/anton ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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