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Forces for Change

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Forces for Change

External forces can impinge heavily on employment-related record keeping. Government action, technological change, evolving managerial viewpoints and techniques, perspectives and goals of business firms and labor unions, market forces, and change in the composition and character of the work force can all have an effect. Yet because policy must be
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Endnotes

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Endnotes

1 American Council of Life Insurance, Life Insurance Fact Book, (New York: American Council of Life Insurance, 1976), p. 9. 2 Health Insurance Institute, The Source Book of Health Insurance Data 1974 - 1975, (New York: Health Insurance Institute, 1975), p. 19. 3 American Council of Life Insurance, op. cit., p. 38. 4 Automobile I
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Recommendations

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Recommendations

The Commission's approach to the problems described in this chapter has been to focus on strengthening and balancing the relationship between the individual insurance applicant, policyholder, or claimant and the insurance institution with whom he deals. As indicated at the outset, the Commission's recommendations have three objectives: (1) to c
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Recommendations

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Recommendations

The Commission's approach to the problems described in this chapter has been to focus on strengthening and balancing the relationship between the individual insurance applicant, policyholder, or claimant and the insurance institution with whom he deals. As indicated at the outset, the Commission's recommendations have three objectives: (1) to c
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Current Legal Restraints on Record-keeping

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Current Legal Restraints on Record-keeping Practices. State Insurance Regulation

The primary regulatory mechanisms for overseeing the activities of insurance institutions are at the State level. State regulation has developed around two basic aims: (1) maintaining the solvency of individual insurance companies; and, (2) assuring fair business practices and pricing. Although interest in the record-keeping practices of insurance
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Unfair Collection, Use, and Disclosure Practices

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Unfair Collection, Use, and Disclosure Practices

Because of their acknowledged dependence upon information about individuals, insurance institutions are reluctant to deprive themselves of inexpensive access to it. There are few restrictions within the industry on the sharing of personally identifiable information or on obtaining it from sources outside the industry. This is true of insurance ins
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Implementation Choices

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Implementation Choices

The Commission had three basic alternatives for giving effect to its policy recommendations: (1) voluntary compliance; (2) statutory creation of rights, interests, or responsibilities enforceable through either individual or governmental action; and (3) establishment of ongoing governmental mechanisms to investigate, study, and report on privacy p
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Implementation Principles

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Implementation Principles

The Commission's findings clearly reveal an overwhelming imbalance in the record keeping relationship between an individual and an organization, and its policy recommendations aim at strengthening the ability of the individual to participate in that relationship.
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The First Amendment and Privacy

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. The First Amendment and Privacy

The legitimate expectation of confidentiality is a concept the Commission endorses for several of the record-keeping relationships examined in this report. The policy objective is that when the relationship is one involving confidentiality of records, the record keeper shall be constrained from disclosing information about an individual without hi
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Record Keeping and Personal Privacy

Personal Privacy in an Information Society. Record Keeping and Personal Privacy

One need only glance at the dramatic changes in our country during the last hundred years to understand why the relationship between organizational record keeping and personal privacy has become an issue in almost all modern societies. The records of a hundred years ago tell little about the average American, except when he died, perhaps when and
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Structural Changes to Plan Benefits

Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report. Structural Changes to Plan Benefits

PERT researchers acquired nominal plan benefits information on the 304 FEHB plans with available benefit design information and participating in the FEHB in 1999, the baseline year of the evaluation. This information was obtained from the OPM website for all four years of the evaluation (1999-2002). To compile information on benefits in each of
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Data Collection Issues

Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report. Data Collection Issues

Plan Selection The study design included selecting a small number of plans for in-depth study, i.e., obtaining archival claims data, conducting plan site visits, and conducting focus groups with providers (from a subset of the selected plans). Plans were selected on the basis of various characteristics on which they were likely to differ:
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State Experiences with Parity

Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report. State Experiences with Parity

A series of efforts at parity legislation has also occurred at the State level (Hennessy and Stephens, 1997). Some States target their parity legislation narrowly to include only people with severe mental disorders, while others cover a broader range of mental illnesses that may also include substance abuse disorders. Experiences with parity polic
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Evaluation Design and Key Research Questions

Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report. Evaluation Design and Key Research Questions

The design of the evaluation was quasi-experimental. It analyzed plan benefits data for all FEHB plans and claims data on access, utilization, and cost for a subset of nine FEHB plans, both before (1999 and 2000) and after (2001 and 2002) the introduction of FEHB parity. Changes in access, utilization and cost were compared to changes in a matched
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Administrative Costs

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.. Administrative Costs

Section 1172(b) of the Act provides that "[a]ny standard adopted under this part [part C of title XI of the Act] shall be consistent with the objective of reducing the administrative costs of providing and paying for health care." The privacy and security standards are the platform on which the remaining standards rest; indeed, the design of part
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History of the Privacy Component of the

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.. History of the Privacy Component of the Administrative Simplification Provisions

The Congress addressed the opportunities and challenges presented by the rapid evolution of health information systems in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, which was enacted on August 21, 1996. Sections 261 through 264 of HIPAA are known as the Administrative Simplification provisions.
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The Federal Response

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.. The Federal Response

There have been numerous federal initiatives aimed at protecting the privacy of especially sensitive personal information over the past several years -- and several decades. While the rules below are likely the largest single federal initiative to protect privacy, they are by no means alone in the field. Rather, the rules arrive in the context of
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Increasing Use of Interconnected Electronic

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.. Increasing Use of Interconnected Electronic Information Systems

Until recently, health information was recorded and maintained on paper and stored in the offices of community-based physicians, nurses, hospitals, and other health care professionals and institutions. In some ways, this imperfect system of record keeping created a false sense of privacy among patients, providers, and others. Patients' health info
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Purpose of the Administrative Simplification

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.. Purpose of the Administrative Simplification Regulations

This regulation has three major purposes:
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Standards for Privacy of Individually

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information. Final Privacy Rule Preamble.

[Federal Register: December 28, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 250)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 82461-82510] [DOCID:fr28de00-29] BILLING CODE: 4150-04M DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Parts 160 through 164 Rin: 0991-AB08 Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health

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Form Approved OMB# 0990-0379 Exp. Date 9/30/2020