NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT CERTIFICATES.

Certificates-as-an-Insurance: Incentivizing Accountability in SSL/TLS

We propose to leverage accountability mechanisms to deal with trust-related security incidents of certification authorities (CAs) in the SSL/TLS public-key infrastructure (PKI). We argue that, despite recent advances in securing certificate issuance and verification, the TLS PKI does not sufficiently incentivize careful identity verification by CAs during certificate issuance or provide CA acco...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996: new national medical privacy standards.

OBJECTIVES To assess the likely effects of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA), based on small firms' experiences under state small group insurance reforms that were similar in design to HIPAA. METHODS Data on 17,818 small businesses (range, 2-50 employees) nationwide from the 1994 National Employer Health Insurance Survey were analyzed to examine the effects o...

National Health Insurance exposed.

National Health Insurance

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei. Received: 16 August 2000. Revised: 8 September 2000. Accepted: 17 October 2000. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Shan-Chwen Chang, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Nati...

National Health Insurance Notes

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...