Aiming to follow those principles while still tapping today's technology, IBM demonstrated what it termed a "Hippocratic database" in which a sample health care database returned results based on the right to know of the individual making the query.
The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted Sun Microsystems' Java card technology primarily to prevent identity theft, according to a statement from the computing firm. Each card contains a microprocessor with 32KB of memory...
The rising cost of health care in the US, along with new legislative initiatives such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, are prompting hospitals and others to try to automate more of their systems.
The proposed EU-wide health card is designed to eventually replace at least five different application forms that currently have to be filled in by EU citizens when studying, travelling, working or receiving health care in member states.
Kerry's plan calls for making America the "location of choice for high-value services" through steps such as reining in the spiralling costs of health care and education. A Kerry administration, unlike the current one, understands that America's...
On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care...