The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has placed strict new requirements on the handling and security of protected health information. Security can be hard to obtain especially for electronic media which can be intercepted many ways. To avoid heavy penalties clinics need to take strong multilayer approaches in order to comply...
The taxi-recapitalisation programme continues to make headline news...taxi operators are up in arms about it. Chaos and violence continues on the roads. Negative comments by experts infer that the programme treats the symptoms and not the causes: lack of driver training, non-roadworthy vehicles, overloading, ineffective policing, etc.
N B: All the quotations come from an address by the Minster of Transport to Top Six Management Ltd, August '05.
Weaned on the belief that 'talking politics' in public might get me locked up (due to the supposed vigilance of Apartheid spies) providing objective, critical analysis of government
policies is not always easy, but here goes...