I would like to take a contrarian stance. To me, HIPAA is only a problem to old line (closed source :-) vendors with a lot of legacy code. In fact, HIPAA is written in a pretty rational and generous way. I don't think it's such a big problem. John
At 08:58 AM 1/13/02, you wrote: >Suggest you ALL carefully, carefully read all the New HIPPA guidelines. >Many will become effective as of October 2002. >The Horse is ALREADY OUT OF THE BARN. > >There is a boiled down version available in print. >Otherwise you can read the whole 50,000 pages at the .gov websites. > >The Guidelines affect everyone, the small solo practice up the BIG >Megagroups, from the Cleaning Crew and Janitorial Staff to the CEO Owners of >the Largest Group Practice and Hospitals. > >Falball >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from rly-xc03.mx.aol.com (rly-xc03.mail.aol.com >[172.20.105.136]) by air-xc05.mail.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id >MAILINXC55-0104221756; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:17:56 -0500 >Received: from list.aafp.org ([208.35.133.7]) by rly-xc03.mx.aol.com >(v83.18) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXC39-0104221745; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 >22:17:45 -0500 >Message-ID: ><LYRIS-5798-8389-2002.01.04-21.06.25--Falball#[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:17:37 -0800 (PST) >From: Debbie Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [practicemgt] RE: How can we allow the government to increase >their control of medicine EVEN MORE? >To: "Practice Management Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-Reply-To: ><LYRIS-5938-8387-2002.01.04-20.54.28--DocDebbee#[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Practice Management Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) > >"The proverbial country doctor who deals only in paper...." >Now WHAT doctor doesn't have a fax machine. It uses an >electronic means of sorts to transmit information, though >generally it starts and ends with paper. When I attended >the TEPR conference in Boston last spring, I got the idea >if you were in a small practice (and I wasn't sure of that >definition) you were exempt from certain things. I left >feeling like I wouldn't be "unduly" effected. I feel really >stupid on this matter. There is so much of it that seems so >contradictory. "Tell me your innermost secrets and then >they will be safe with me" makes a lot less sense than not >telling your secrets at all. > >Any education you can give us on this, please continue. > >Debbie > >--- Gregory Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those who believe that government control and access to > > patient > > information ...... > >===== >It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > >--- >You are currently subscribed to practicemgt as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
