Hospitals and healthcare institutions in Pennsylvania (US) stepped up their checks for Y2K preparation on Thursday after the state Governor, Tom Ridge, called on them to mark the 100-day countdown to 1st January 1st.
In the United States, medical and insurance companies are bracing for a key deadline involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect the privacy of health records, among other things.
Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other laws will force CEOs to invest in back-end systems. It is clear that the improving profit picture is getting CEOs thinking, 'What am I going to do about growth?
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...
Businesses peddling wireless tagging technologies - such as RFID chips - to the NHS and other healthcare providers will come up against plenty of resistance, but should not give up, according to a recent report.
Mobile phone operators and internet telephony companies will soon face the "onerous burden" of getting their systems compliant with new European data retention regulations. This means costs in the form of assessing current systems, adapting them...