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Response: We agree that protected health information should only be used by business associates for the purposes identified in the business associate contract.

The tool was specifically designed to assist small to medium size medical practices in performing HIPAA compliance and risk management activities, but could also be used by business associates to perform risk analysis and compliance activities.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

In order to develop the overhead expenses for the expense table used in this portion of the business plan, you need to multiply the number of employees by the expenses associated with each employee.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

By: Kimberley Smuts 6th May 2016 The use of multiparametric block models, which contain more than just geological data, to analyse the risks associated with the mining process, allow more informed business decisions to be made on the basis of risk and exposure to that risk.

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In addition to being the only reimbursement approach recommended by the IRS, it's the only methodology that that can be used to reimburse drivers tax - free for both the fixed and variable costs associated with driving for business.

The practice has been used by businesses to manipulate social media users or online shoppers, by having one paid associate post false reviews on web sites about products for sale.

LinkedIn is perhaps one of the most well - known of the online social networks and is commonly used by professionals hoping to make new and fruitful contacts with other professionals in their field and the organizations and businesses associated with them.

Presented by: Jason Pagotto, Business Development Associate, TD Direct Investing In this seminar presented by Jason Pagotto of TD Direct Investing, attendees will learn about the benefits and risks of using a margin account in their investment portfolio.

In order to use the Services, you agree to: (i) provide information about yourself and any associated business that is true, accurate, and complete as prompted by the Service's sign up process and (ii) where applicable and appropriate, maintain and update your information to keep it true, accurate, and complete.

Presented by: Chafih Mansouri, Business Development Associate, TD Direct Investing In this seminar presented by Chafih Mansouri of TD Direct Investing, attendees will learn how to use technical tools to become more confident when making investment decisions.

A petition started by global advocacy group SumOfUs is calling on the fast food giant to conduct a study that would examine the «business risks» associated with continued use of plastic straws, «arguing that their continued use could cost McDonald's environmentally aware customers.»

By reducing the amount of energy (i.e., fuel use) associated with freight transport through a range of measures, businesses can reduce costs and become more competitive.

«You can always use more good people but we were lucky; for the last six years we've been among the best employers in Canada [in a ranking of the «50 Best Employers in Canada» by consulting firm Hewitt Associates and Report on Business magazine.]

A covered entity or business associate may not use or disclose protected health information except as permitted or required by this subpart or by subpart C of part 160 of this subchapter.

Health care providers are permitted to disclose protected health information («PHI») to these business associates («BA») as long as they obtain satisfactory assurances that the BA will use the information only for the purposes for which it was engaged by the health care provider, will safeguard the information from misuse, and will help the health care provider comply with some of the health care provider's duties under HIPAA, through the execution of business associate agreements.

Most firms that place a premium on revenue from partners» personal production find that partners tend to hold their client relationships too close to their vests; they frequently hoard client work rather than spread it around to other partners — because the former wants to receive full credit; partners perform work that could be performed by associates because the former wants to receive full credit; partners do billable work when their higher and better use for the law firm is to generate additional business from existing and potential clients; and lawyers may perform work outside of their principle areas of expertise that others in the firm could perform more effectively and efficiently.

Edited by Ank Santens and Jennifer Glasser, Senior Associate at White & Case and Secretary of the CPR Arbitration Committee, the Manual provides guidance on how to draft and manage the dispute resolution methods that are most commonly used in international business transactions (negotiation, mediation, expert determination and dispute boards, and international commercial and investment arbitration).

A covered entity may use protected health information to create information that is not individually identifiable health information or disclose protected health information only to a business associate for such purpose, whether or not the de-identified information is to be used by the covered entity.

(H) Make its internal practices, books, and records relating to the use and disclosure of protected health information received from, or created or received by the business associate on behalf of, the covered entity available to the Secretary for purposes of determining the covered entity's compliance with this subpart; and

The contract may not authorize the business associate to use or further disclose the information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this subpart, if done by the covered entity, except that:

We retain the requirement that a business associate contract may not authorize a business associate to use or further disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this subpart if done by the covered entity, but we add two exceptions.

Once a covered entity has accounted for a disclosure to any person other than a business associate, it is not responsible for accounting for any further uses or disclosures of the information by that other person.

The provision is restricted to uses by covered entities or disclosures to their business associates pursuant to a contract that requires confidentiality, ensuring that protected health information is not distributed to third parties.

Response: With regard to our authority to require business associate contracts, we clarify that Congress gave the Department explicit authority to regulate what uses and disclosures of protected health information by covered entities are «authorized.»

Thus, so long as the use of debt collectors is consistent with the regulatory requirements (such as, providers obtain the proper consents, the disclosure is of the minimum amount of information necessary to collect the debt, the provider or health plan enter into a business associate agreement with the debt collector, etc.), relying upon debt collectors to obtain reimbursement for the provision of health care would not be prohibited by the regulation.

(i) Establish the permitted and required uses and disclosures of such information by the business associate.

Require the business associate to maintain safeguards as necessary to ensure that the protected health information is not used or disclosed except as provided by the contract.

With respect to the uses and disclosures authorized under § 164.502 or § 164.512, a clearinghouse acting as a business associate is not authorized by the rule to make any use or disclosure not permitted by its business associate contract.

We do not mean by this requirement that the business associate contract must specify each and every use and disclosure of protected health information permitted to the business associate.

Prohibit the business associate from further using or disclosing the protected health information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this proposed rule if it were done by the covered entity.

Where a health plan that is a government program provides public benefits, such as SCHIP and Medicaid, and where eligibility for, or enrollment in, the health plan is determined by an agency other than the agency administering the health plan, or where the protected health information used to determine enrollment or eligibility in the health plan is collected by an agency other than the agency administering the health plan, and the joint activities are authorized by law, no business associate contract is required with respect to the collection and sharing of individually identifiable health information for the performance of the authorized functions by the health plan and the agency other than the agency administering the health plan.

Response: As stated in § 164.504 (e)(2), business associates are acting on behalf of, or performing services for, the covered entity and may not, with two narrow exceptions, use or disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate this rule if done by the covered entity.

We except data aggregation from the general requirement that a business associate contract may not authorize a business associate to use or further disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this subpart if done by the covered entity in order to permit the combining or aggregation of protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities when it is performing this service.

(I) At termination of the contract, if feasible, return or destroy all protected health information received from, or created or received by the business associate on behalf of, the covered entity that the business associate still maintains in any form and retain no copies of such information or, if such return or destruction is not feasible, extend the protections of the contract to the information and limit further uses and disclosures to those purposes that make the return or destruction of the information infeasible.

While we permit uses or disclosures of protected health information for a variety of purposes, business associate contracts or other arrangements are only required for those cases in which the covered entity is disclosing information to someone or some organization that will use the information on behalf of the covered entity, when the other person will be creating or obtaining protected health information on behalf of the covered entity, or when the business associate is providing the specified services to the covered entity and the provision of those services involves the disclosure of protected health information by the covered entity to the business associate.

For example, if a business associate acts as the billing agent of a health care provider, and discloses protected health information on behalf of the hospital to health plans, the business associate has no responsibility with respect to further uses or disclosures by the health plan.

Authorizations requested by a business associate on the covered entity's behalf and that authorize the use or disclosure of protected health information by the covered entity or the business associate must meet the requirements in § 164.508 (d).

(B)(1) The business associate obtains reasonable assurances from the person to whom the information is disclosed that it will be held confidentially and used or further disclosed only as required by law or for the purpose for which it was disclosed to the person; and

In the example above, where a covered entity has a business associate contract with a lawyer, and the lawyer discloses protected health information to an expert witness in preparation for litigation, the lawyer again would have no responsibility under this subpart with respect to uses or disclosures by the expert witness, because such witness is not undertaking the functions, activities or services that the business associate lawyer has agreed to perform.

We address the issue of data mining by requiring that the business associate contract explicitly identify the uses or disclosures that the business associate is permitted to make with the protected health information.

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«One of the best ways to leverage Foursquare for your business is by setting up your office as a check - in location,» says Lesley Lambert, a sales associate with Park Square Realty in Westfield, Mass., who's been using the application since it launched in 2009.

HUD found that the company encouraged its associates to establish a shell organization, a company with no significant assets or business operations, and use it to purchase an interest in a title company partly owned by the real estate company.

594 DOS 01 DOS v. Walker - deposits; failure to appear at hearing; failure to pay judgment; failure to cooperate with DOS investigation; notary public; proper business practices; broker commingles funds by placing deposits in operating account; broker allows escrow account to be overdrawn on numerous occasions; broker uses deposit for separate, unrelated business investment; broker fails to pay judgment without presenting an explanation or excuse for failure to pay judgment; broker fails to cooperate with DOS investigation by failing to respond to and comply with letter directing him to appear for a conference and to provide certain documents; broker fails to notify DOS of new address upon closing office; DOS fails to prove that salesperson improperly held herself out to be real estate broker associated with corporate broker, that the broker made misrepresentations to the purchasers regarding payments they were required to make toward the purchase, that some checks were returned for insufficient funds, that the broker failed to make certain required payments, that the broker properly failed to make certain other deposits and that the broker gave a postdated deposit check which could not be cashed due to insufficient funds; representative broker's and corporate broker's licenses revoked, return of deposits in the amount of $ 400.00 and $ 3,173.83 ordered with interest, civil judgment to be fully satisfied; salesperson fined $ 1,000.00 and notary commission suspended for four months

649 DOS 02 DOS v. Holzbach — disclosure of agency relationships; proper business practices; sanctions; unauthorized practice of law; vicarious liability; broker fails to timely provide agency disclosure form to buyer although disclosure form could have been faxed to and received from buyer; broker back dated agency disclosure form demonstrating incompetency; use of designated agent form without the use of required agency disclosure form pursuant to RPL § 443 (4); use of «removal of contingency» addendum to contract which did not contain an attorney approval clause and was not on a form jointly approved by the County Bar Association and REALTOR Association constituted the unauthorized practice of law; corporate broker liable for the acts of its representative broker; proper to impose a higher fine after hearing than that which was offered in settlement (joint fine of $ 2,000.00 offered); associate broker fined $ 2,000.00, representative broker fined $ 1,000.00, and corporate broker fined $ 2,000.00