Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) Privacy Rule “This page provides guidance about methods and approaches to achieve de-identification in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The guidance explains and answers questions regarding the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Third European Quality of Life Survey – Quality of life in Europe: Impacts of the crisis
“What determines life satisfaction and happiness? How do we value our social situation and immediate surroundings? How has this changed with the economic crisis? For the third wave of the European Quality of Life survey, 35,500 Europeans in all EU Member States were interviewed, in an effort to gain insights to these questions. This overview… Continue Reading
OECD – Global economy facing hesitant and uneven recovery
“The global economy is expected to make a hesitant and uneven recovery over the coming two years. Decisive policy action is needed to ensure that stalemate over fiscal policy in the United States and continuing euroarea instability do not plunge the world back into recession, according to the OECDs latest Economic Outlook. The world economy… Continue Reading
HHS OIG – Early Assessment Finds CMS Faces Obstacles in Overseeing Medicare EHR Incentive Program
HHS OIG – Early Assessment Finds CMS Faces Obstacles in Overseeing the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. Daniel R. Levinson Inspector General November 2012 “This study is an early assessment of CMSs oversight of the Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, for which CMS estimates it will pay $6.6 billion in incentive payments between 2011… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Combating Nuclear Smuggling, Coal-Fueled Generation, Health Care Fraud
Combating Nuclear Smuggling – Megaports Initiative Faces Funding and Sustainability Challenges, GAO-13-37, Oct 31, 2012 Electricity – Significant Changes Are Expected in Coal-Fueled Generation, but Coal is Likely to Remain a Key Fuel Source, GAO-13-72, Oct 29, 2012 Health Care Fraud – Types of Providers Involved in Medicare Cases, and CMS Efforts to Reduce Fraud,… Continue Reading
Pew – The changing world of libraries
The changing world of libraries, Lee Rainie, November 28, 2012. “Nine takeaways for librarians: E-reading is taking off because e-reading gadgets are taking off The gadget doesnt make the reader, but it may change the reader E-book readers are reading omnivores (and probably influencers) E-book readers are not platform snobs AND they like different platforms… Continue Reading
Unemployment Insurance in the Wake of the Recent Recession
CBO: “The unemployment insurance (UI) system is a partnership between the federal government and state governments that provides a temporary weekly benefit to qualified workers who lose their job and are seeking work. The amount of that benefit is based in part on a workers past earnings. CBO estimates that UI benefits totaled $94 billion… Continue Reading
Losing Ground: Housing and transportation costs outpacing incomes
“The combined costs of housing and transportation in the nations largest 25 metro areas have swelled by 44 percent since 2000 while incomes have failed to keep pace, according to a new report from the Center for Housing Policythe research affiliate of the National Housing Conferenceand the Center for Neighborhood Technology. The report, Losing Ground:… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Beige Book, November 2012
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions By Federal Reserve District, November 2012 “Economic activity expanded at a measured pace in recent weeks, according to reports from contacts in the twelve Federal Reserve Districts. Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco grew at a modest pace, while St. Louis and Minneapolis indicated… Continue Reading
Judge Orders Tobacco Companies to Publish Statements on Dangers of Smoking
CNN: “Tobacco companies have been ordered by a federal judge to publicly admit, through advertisements and package warnings, that they deceived American consumers for decades about the dangers of smoking. Federal Judge Gladys Kessler issued her ruling [U.S. v. Philip Morris (99-cv-2496)] Tuesday in one of the last legal steps settling liability in the long-running… Continue Reading
EPIC – NASA Suffers More Data Breaches
Via EPIC: “NASA has announced that the theft of an unencrypted laptop has compromised the personal information of a “large number” of NASA employees and contractors. A similar theft earlier this year exposed the data of thousands of Kennedy Space Center employees. The federal agency said that by the end of the year all NASA… Continue Reading
Aging, Financial Literacy, and Fraud
Gamble, Keith Jacks, Boyle, Patricia, Yu, Lei and Bennett, David, Aging, Financial Literacy, and Fraud (October 22, 2012). Available at SSRN. “We use a unique dataset to examine the financial literacy of older Americans and its importance for their financial decision making. The aging of the population and the shift to individual retirement accounts make… Continue Reading
