Building software compliant with HIPAA standards necessitates a deep understanding of its Privacy and Security Rules to safeguard protected health information effectively.

IMHO, the customer should be able to opt out of this automatic adding if they want more/full control over the footer. Then they can take on the responsibility themselves.

As healthcare regulations become increasingly complex, digital solutions are becoming essential tools for compliance. This recent blog post provides a comprehensive overview of how technology can streamline compliance tasks, reduce errors, and improve patient safety.

"For compliance reasons". That's pretty vague. Compliance with what?

seemingly contradictory:

You'll need to contact Microsoft support to have this item reviewed. But they already tried to report it to Microsoft and it was blocked? What form of contacting Microsoft support is expected to be used and how is it better? Won't any form of "having this item reviewed" cause it to leave the boundary and go outside the organization?

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A major point in Chloé Collins's text is that traditional annotations risk feeling like a chore, done to fulfill teachers' requirements. In Collins's experience, the collaborative dimension of social annotation helps make it into something learners do for themselves.

https://eductive.ca/en/resource/real-life-story/boosting-engagement-with-social-annotation/

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This is an interesting distinction... privacy-because-it-is-the-right-thing-to-do versus privacy-because-you-must. I think the latter is where most institutions are today. It will take a lot more education to get institutions to the former.

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Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 172, amends IRPA s. 32(d.5) to say:

(d.5) the requirement for an employer to provide a prescribed person with prescribed information in relation to a foreign national’s authorization to work in Canada for the employer;

Previously it had said:

(d.5) the requirement for an employer to provide a prescribed person with prescribed information in relation to a foreign national’s authorization to work in Canada for the employer, the electronic system by which that information must be provided, the circumstances in which that information may be provided by other means and those other means;

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