On 1 September 2017 at 16:37, James Schneider <jrschneide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, if you are developing this application for use within the USA, be > sure that you are not capturing or storing data that would fall under the > HIPAA definition of personal medical data. If it does, your legal > compliance responsibilities and liabilities will skyrocket. > > I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure whether or not these data fields > would be considered under HIPAA, but a compromise of medical data is > extremely expensive, and I believe you can be held personally liable in > some cases, even if developing for an employer. > > https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index.html > > If not in the US, there may be other regulations. > We are not in the US, but our laws are equally as strict. The culture isn't quite so litigious either. Having said that, all "patients" will only have an id, and the id->name will be mapped on paper in a filing cabinet. On top of that, it's within the corporate firewall. Which isn't perfect, I'm sure, but it pretty good. You need to have access to the staff LAN (via eth) to access the site. This is the first in a long "project to replace all access 2003/2007/2010 dbs" with something more...contemporary. cheers L. ------ "The antidote to apocalypticism is *apocalyptic civics*. Apocalyptic civics is the insistence that we cannot ignore the truth, nor should we panic about it. It is a shared consciousness that our institutions have failed and our ecosystem is collapsing, yet we are still here — and we are creative agents who can shape our destinies. Apocalyptic civics is the conviction that the only way out is through, and the only way through is together. " *Greg Bloom* @greggish https://twitter.com/greggish/status/873177525903609857 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAGBeqiOv%3D%3DpcKai8dUqTgKw7g7ZbJkVXAsZYL21GLaOSorCb2w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
