Analysis of Online Health Care Privacy Policies Pre- and Post-HIPAA

[dave () farber net]

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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



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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.
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Email:   anton () csc ncsu edu
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