The federal government mandates that hospitals keep patient privacy sacred under the 1996 Health Information and Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. But doctors and hospitals are bound by law in some cities and states to report every gun-violence incident.
"The changes will provide a more timely insight into the (Fed's) outlook, will help households and businesses better understand and anticipate how our policy decisions respond to incoming information and will enhance our accountability for the decisions we make, " the Fed chief said in a speech to a conference on monetary policy at the Cato Institute.
This will provide a basis of information that can be used for future accountability processes.
The event is expected to foster reflection and exchange of ideas on freedom of information to advance empowerment, transparency, accountability and the fight against corruption.
And just as information plays a massive part in the argument about personal freedom, as what I've said about Labour's surveillance state databases demonstrates, so too is information central to the argument about political accountability.
In India, freedom of information legislation resulted from grassroots demand for political accountability, following a growing awareness that the right to know facilitates access to all other rights.
Companies in the healthcare industry, which store sensitive patient information regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), also must face increased cyber security risks.
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Improving interagency coordination and information sharing, and strengthening agency capacity and accountability will help ensure the effective implementation of these and other Government efforts to promote gender equality and advance the status of women and girls globally.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched a comprehensive cloud and data center infrastructure portfolio specifically designed to help the health care industry meet the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic protected health information.
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In the medical industry, HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, set similar regulations around protecting personal health information.
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First, the founders were on to something police departments were feeling increasing pressure to share information with the public about crime and to increase transparency and their accountability.
And as part of that process, we will review the role of the Information Commissioner to make sure that it is designed to maximise political accountability in our country.
Nepal adopted its Right to Information Act in 2006, with great expectations for improved government transparency and accountability.
In doing so, Executive Order 13554 established a Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (Task Force) to coordinate intergovernmental efforts, planning, and the exchange of information in order to better implement Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration and facilitate appropriate accountability and support throughout the restoration process.
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The form, he said, ensures that he's in compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly referred to as HIPAA, designed to protect the privacy of health information.
"Students are sharing personal information, including explicit content, with an anonymous page administrator, who has no accountability, " it said.
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So as a next step, the Justice Secretary will set out further plans to look at broadening the application of freedom of information to include additional bodies which also need to be subject to greater transparency and accountability.
This point has been noted repeatedly by the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency, and explains why items like aircraft modifications, pilot training and information systems are captured in the F-35 cost estimates but not in the support-cost estimates for previous planes.
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Answerability refers to the obligation of the government, its agencies and public officials to provide information about their decisions and actions and to justify them to the public and those institutions of accountability tasked with providing oversight.
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