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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
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Subject: Re: request
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:11:19 +0100
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:01:57 +0200, Iwona
<iwonachf@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> The sentence is like that: "These provisions are designed to help cover
> entities more easily comply with the business associate contract
> requirements of the Privacy Rule." Perhaps you could also tell me what
> "business associate" is.
In that context it seems that "cover entities" is a technical term of
some kind, and 'cover' is being used as an adjective not (as I had
assumed without context) a verb or a noun. I'm afraid I've never
encountered it used that way before. A Google search finds several uses
with regard to insurance, but no definition I've found and I don't know
enough about business practices to guess.
A "business associate" is a person involved with or in your business.
The people with whom I work are "business associates", they aren't
friends an my only interaction with them is as part of the
business,although business associate is more often a financial partner
or otherwise involved in the running of the business.
I think that you really need to ask on a newsgroup about law or
business, since things like contracts are mentioned, legal language is
not purely English <g>...
Chris C
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