Today the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services issued a Request for Information titled HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (75 Fed Reg 23214 May 3, 2010) . More information at the OCR website . The Request for Information by OCR seeks comments from health consumers and health care providers/organizations.

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OCR Request for Information: HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under HITECH

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook .) I recently heard a retired general, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict, quoted as saying the only way he knew what was really happening was to be with his troops in the jungle. He was famously absent from staff meetings, wanting to be in the middle of the action

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Does Leadership Change in a Web 2.0 World?

Guest post by Alice Seba of Contentrix.com In this day and age of the social web, you’ve no doubt heard the buzz words when it comes to online business: Transparency Connections Relationships Engagement …and the list goes on and on. Those are all feel-good things and even desirable things in an online relationship, but unless you keep those things in line with your business objectives…you’re going to end up with a bunch of “friends” and a still empty bank account. But before we get into talking about your business objectives, let’s start by thing about why staying real is good for your long term business strategy: You’re a real flesh-and-blood person…not some faceless corporation projecting a corporate image

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Keeping It Real! by Alice Seba

Nothing says “Touch Me” quite like a baby. Whether it is their pinchable cheeks, little feet or that ticklish belly, almost everyone loves babies. Sometimes we love them so much that we want to touch them, whether or not we know who the kid is

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One Mom’s Kind Reminder To Look, Not Touch

Last week I wrote about how, like it or not, keeping track of tax deductions is a year-round job for freelance writers.

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Pay Less to Uncle Sam Later by Tracking Your Tax Write-Offs Now

Decades of thoughtful tweaking, finessing, and updating have gone into the big name logos you’ve come to recognize, know, and love. Bored Panda has put together a collection of logos as they have changed over the years. Twenty more logos here .

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Evolution Of A Logo

Do you find that company strategy meetings often descend into adversarial position-taking? Many people complain to me that it’s the single biggest block to strategy-making that they encounter. But getting around that block is a lot easier than you might think

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My Eureka Moment With Strategy

By SUSAN NOACK, IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS To say that the health care industry is undergoing a significant transformation would be quite the understatement. Current economic conditions have challenged health care organizations to deliver optimal services in the face of compromised…

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The Changing Face of Health Care: How Business Analytics Can Improve Performance & Drive Efficiencies

LA Times : “Companies are sprouting up across the country, offering help building and maintaining backyard vegetable gardens for those who lack the time — or green thumb — needed to keep the crops coming.” From Business Opportunities Weblog .

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Business is Booming for Backyard Farmers

The last time I scoured the web for “ Write for Us ” pages, the ensuing post was very well received.  It’s not always easy to find some of the hidden markets – even though the web is filled with them.  Doing a web search for “write for us” helped me to land some very lucrative opportunities and I’ve been recommending this method of searching for years. I know you’ve all been clamoring for more “Write for Us” pages, and I will continue to bring them to you as often as I can. Please note, it’s a frustrating and long process as many of the “Write for Us” pages on the web are non-paying opportunities and there’s a lot to go through

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55 More “Write for Us” Pages

According to ReadWriteWeb it’s known as the marshmallow challenge. Small teams are given 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure made of dry spaghetti, one yard of string, one yard of tape and a marshmallow, which must be placed on top.

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The Marshmallow Challenge

Each stroke of the brush that Shari Ford makes has its purpose in the picture. The process alone can take around 3 to 4 months just to complete one portrait. Considering the amount of time it takes, you can imagine her dismay when she walked into her studio to find one of her pieces defaced reports KnoxNews.com

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The Art Of Moms In Business

The Arizona Republic warns that those who are without a job and who are behind on bills are particularly vulnerable to the scams that offer big money for little work. Sometimes they stumble into one scam, then another as they try to recover from the first.

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Dreaming Of Easy Money? Don’t Be Fooled

What do you get when you combine bubble wrap and orange trees? You get young Eric Baker’s invention, the “Orange DeBruiser.” One of 15 semi-finalists in the fourth annual Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors, Eric is hoping that his invention will bring home the $10,000 prize reports the OrlandoSentinel.com

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That’s A (Bubble) Wrap

What should you do to rehabilitate your general reputation if you are in Goldman Sachs’ executive suite at 200 West Street in New York? Beset by an SEC complaint, a criminal investigation, a Senate grilling, and the resulting loss in two weeks of more than $20 billion in market capitalization, Goldman has assumed a defensive posture. This is so even though the firm just announced $3.46 billion in first quarter earnings.

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Is It Too Late for Goldman Sachs to Play Offense?

This week’s guest will be Paul Ruck, Manager of Recruitment Advertising and Sourcing for Alpine Access, one of the fastest-growing companies in the home-based calling business. In 1998 Alpine Access pioneered a simple, yet revolutionary approach to customer care: rather than bring the people to the work, bring the work to the people.

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Radio guest this Friday will be Paul Ruck from Alpine Access

Harvard Business School professor Youngme Moon has emerged as one of the world’s compelling voices on the future of strategy, competition, and brands. She teaches one of HBS’s most popular courses , she has written some of its best-selling case studies , and, a few years ago, she co-authored one of the most provocative articles that HBR has published in years.

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Youngme Moon and Why Being Different Makes All the Difference

If you’re a writer, you’re in the business of coming up with ideas. Whether you’re pitching an editor on a new topic, writing persuasive copy or even working on that epic novel, ideas are the basis of your ability to earn a living

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We’re In the Ideas Business

How often do you change the way your blog homepage look? Or how frequently do you change your blog theme – to a premium theme or custom theme perhaps? There are also many free themes available for download so you practically can change your blog theme everyday if you liked to.

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Wanna Know What Google Sees In Your Blog’s Home Page?

It’s time again for some Freelance Fitness ideas on how we can be healthier when working from home. On a side note, I’m probably going to move this to a weekly series rather than every other week. We’ll still alternate — exercise, food, exercise, food, etc.

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Freelance Writers: Dance the Day Away