This is the second in a series of three posts that cover the background of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), HIPAA requirements, and HIPAA compliance strategies for startups and small businesses. The aim of this series is to make the...
Whether dealing with simple applications or constructing complex medical treatment tools, businesses looking to enter the burgeoning market of health care services will need to become familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The...
Unlike many countries in the world, the United States does not have one regulatory agency with authority to monitor and enforce data privacy violations. The U.S. uses a sectoral model of data privacy protection, using a variety of enforcement mechanisms. One of those...
If your business collects personally identifiable information (or PII) about your customers, you will need a privacy policy to let them know how you plan to collect, use, share and secure information about them. In an increasingly digitalized world, privacy policies...
Nearly every organization collects personally identifiable information, or PII. Because of the sensitive nature of many different types of PII, its collection can pose an array of unique challenges, especially for younger or smaller organizations without a dedicated...
UPDATE: Since this article was drafted, the US-EU Safe Harbor program has been shut down. There is now a new regime in place named Privacy Shield. Please see this article for more information. Any company looking to transfer data about users from the European Union...
