On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 08:26 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > My wife's new clinic will be running OpenEMR, an open source > medical records program. Sometimes patients (or their other > doctors) want copies of their records. Rather than kill trees, > I am thinking about putting their patient record on a stripped > down linux live CD, along with a specially configured version > of OpenEMR. > > This would have interesting "evangelistic" consequences for > both Linux and OpenEMR. > > To do this properly, the patient data portions of the live > CD should be password encrypted. Also, it would be nice > to have a very fast CD writer, with some kind of automagic > labelling system so that the CD gets a readable label before > it is handled by people (we don't want to accidentally swap > the CDs going to two different patients).
Sounds excellent. From your verbiage, it sounds like you're up to speed on HIPPA and related privacy regulations. I assume they don't regulate in this kind of detail (but don't know). Assuming you have the flexibility available, have you considered using USB keys -- they could be set up with read/only (for the "Live CD") and read/write partitions (for patient data). I assume such rw partitions can be LUKS encrypted. Drawbacks -- that means you wouldn't have access to the CD labelers that laser the label right on top of the media, and USB keys are more expensive. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
