These days companies are using more and more customer data to improve their products and services. On October 2, 2006, Netflix announced the $1 Million Prize for improving their movie recommendation algorithm. Netflix released an anonymous dataset containing movie ratings by 500,000 subscribers containing 100M ratings for 17,000 movies. Netflix asserted that all personally identifiable…
Category: Privacy
HIPAA Simplified {Part 2 – Definitions & Lexicons}
Authorization A Covered Entity (CE) is not allowed to share or disclose Protected Health Information (PHI) for reasons other than those specifically allowed by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule covers allowable usage and disclosure of PHI including to whom the information can be disclosed and under what circumstances the information can be shared….
HIPAA Simplified {Part 1 – Timeline & Overview}
Having worked in the healthcare industry for almost a year now, I feel compelled to simplify the requirements of HIPAA compliance. I hope this and the upcoming articles in the series will help you to better understand these requirements. The purpose of this series is to give an introduction to the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability…