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Breach Notification: Technically Speaking
November 18, 2009 9:50 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

While researching for my encryption article, " Are You Secured? " I was struck by what I would consider a loophole in the breach notification rules. According to the new regulations, when a security breach or theft occurs, the covered entity or business Read More...

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FTC Probes CVS
November 6, 2009 9:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Your friendly neighborhood drug store--OK, more like the corporate colossus that runs it--is under investigation again. CVS Caremark Corp. announced yesterday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the company's business practices, according Read More...

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Movies and Medical Records
November 3, 2009 12:47 PM by Lisa Algeo

(Editor's note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE .) It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language Read More...

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Registry: Child's Play?
August 6, 2009 10:43 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Call me a bandwagoner, but I just started reading Julie and Julia (Quite frankly, I'm just a wannabe foodie who wanted something to breeze through after being semi-forced into reading a 500-page sci-fi book). I was poring through Julie Powell's witticisms Read More...

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HIPAA be damned?
July 14, 2009 8:05 AM by Lynn Jusinski

[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad Read More...

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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski

I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...

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