MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread ghuntress
Hi, I'm taking a database class and we are given open ended discussion questions each week. The question this week is: Will MySQL take away market share from popular DBMSs? Will your comments change if you are told that MySQL is not HIPPAA compliant? I have been using MySQL for well over 3

Re: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm taking a database class and we are given open ended discussion questions each week. The question this week is: Will MySQL take away market share from popular DBMSs? Will your comments change if you are told

RE: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread J.R. Bullington
PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance? Hi, I'm taking a database class and we are given open ended discussion questions each week. The question this week is: Will MySQL take away market share from popular DBMSs? Will your comments change if you are told that MySQL

RE: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread Keith D. Holler
: J.R. Bullington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:29 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance? What a great discussion thread! Gary, I currently use MySQL as part of a HIPAA compliant system for the integration of web-based apps with Patient

Re: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Matthews wrote: [snip] For example, besides containing regulations concerning techology for software that deals with artifacts that fall under HIPPA (but does not mandate _which_ technology to use), there are regulations about _physical_

Re: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread ross
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:29:19PM -0400, J.R. Bullington wrote: The way that data is stored is not at the issue. It's the way that data is collected that is at the heart of the RDBMS part of HIPAA. I once interned for a major vendor of HIPAA-compliant hospital IT solutions, doing software

RE: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance?

2005-08-05 Thread J.R. Bullington
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:46 PM To: J.R. Bullington Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: MySQL and HIPAA Compliance? Now the systems that I designed/use were designed with HIPAA in mind, so, save 1 or 2 tables, everything is in integers. Printing out an entire