Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 31, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Mike Schrom wrote:In the VA hospital, some records opened in CPRS give us a warning about "Sensitive Patient Record" and the warning says something about all access being monitored. I don't have any idea how it's implemented (or whether it's just a scare tactic!). I've

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Mike Schrom
In the VA hospital, some records opened in CPRS give us a warning about "Sensitive Patient Record" and the warning says something about all access being monitored. I don't have any idea how it's implemented (or whether it's just a scare tactic!). I've never seen a warning in "blue screen" VistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM

2006-03-31 Thread Maury Pepper
Usha, When you run ZWR on Cache, the "Device" prompt is expecting you to provide a file name for saving the global. There should then be a prompt for "All Globals?" where you provide the name of the global(s) you wish to copy. This version of ZWR will blow up if you try to do ALL globals beca

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:So Auditing also tracks *viewing*?  I didn't know that. Kevin Incidentally, in my "dream" version of Fileman there would be no access to the underlying globals at all, so it wouldn't be possible to circumvent VistA security by going to the progra

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:So Auditing also tracks *viewing*?  I didn't know that. Kevin Auditing tracks option use (that is, auditing of options), so if you use, say, Health Summary to view patient data, that could be audited (because it is an option). Gregory Woodhouse[E

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 31, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Marc Krawitz wrote: Greg - you mentioned that viewing patient data through the menu options can be audited. What about viewing through CPRS? In either case, how is this setup? Thanks, Marc I don't know CPRS well enough to say whether or not it has its own m

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Marc Krawitz
Greg - you mentioned that viewing patient data through the menu options can be audited. What about viewing through CPRS? In either case, how is this setup? Thanks, Marc --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting l

Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM

2006-03-31 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Usha, please go to my server and download the routine and the instructions and try that. On Friday 31 March 2006 07:37, Usha wrote: Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTMI downloaded ZWR.rsa from the SourceForge site and imported it into Cache's EHR namespace. After runnin

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
So Auditing also tracks *viewing*? I didn't know that. Kevin On 3/31/06, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > > Marc, > > > > > I have heard this asked before and the answer has been Yes. But I > > don't know that *viewing*

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:Marc, I have heard this asked before and the answer has been Yes.  But I don't know that *viewing* of data can be tracked.  Is this truly a requirement of HIPAA EMR's?  And if so, I'd like others to show me how to do this. Kevin Certainly, optio

Re: [Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Marc, I have heard this asked before and the answer has been Yes. But I don't know that *viewing* of data can be tracked. Is this truly a requirement of HIPAA EMR's? And if so, I'd like others to show me how to do this. Kevin On 3/31/06, Marc Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is prob

Re: Reply: Subject: [Hardhats-members] Question about VA National Drug File

2006-03-31 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
On 3/31/06, Bob Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During development of the national drug file the VA found that the available > method of drug classification did not meet the needs for electronic drug > files. A contract with U.S.P. produced the present VA classification of > drugs and it continu

Re: [Hardhats-members] Hosting Vista for Physician Offices

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Richardson
Dear Arv;      There are many aspects to what you ask.  There is a learning curve and a commitment to the VistA application which needs to happen if you are to host your own VistA system.  VistA is not a turn-key operation.  It is an application which grows and adapts to the changing needs o

[Hardhats-members] HIPAA Compliance

2006-03-31 Thread Marc Krawitz
This is probably a dumb question but I'll ask anyway - is VistA fully compliant with the HIPAA regulations (security and privacy)? Specifically, does it support auditing the viewing of patient information? Thanks, Marc --- This SF.Net email i

[Hardhats-members] Hosting Vista for Physician Offices

2006-03-31 Thread Arv Sepetys
Hello.  I am looking for insights from experienced Vista/Vista-Office folks.   If you were to run an ASP/service bureau-style operation serving mostly small, independent physician practices, what options would you consider in the Vista/Vista-Office realm?   Which of these would be most attr

Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM

2006-03-31 Thread Usha
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM  I downloaded ZWR.rsa from the SourceForge site and imported it into Cache's EHR namespace. After running the command D ^ZWR and waiting for around an hour, following is displayed EHR>D ^ZWR DUMPS GLOBALS IN ZWR FORMAT Device

Re: [Hardhats-members] Consult Setup

2006-03-31 Thread Anna Joseph
Kevin, Thank you for your encouragement. The secret of any progress that we (Joseph, Usha & I) may have made is primarily because of the generous support that you and the other members of the Hardhats team have provided. That's inspite of being on the other side of the world here in New Delhi, Ind