Thanks for the information Lee, but this is not a real clinic. Dr Tim who hired us, is really our teacher. The web site does point out some good information I have not seen before. May be I use it in our presentation, to help us get a better grade. Will see. Thanks for all the great information. It helps. If there is anymore, please pass it along. Regards, Darren >From: Lee Einer >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >Subject: Re: SW for school project >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:26:14 -0700 > >HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is an >enormous piece of federal legislation which establishes standards for >security and privacy of health information as well as uniform standards for >electronic claims submission (the Administrative Simplification provision >of the Act.) The clinic should already have at least one person in the role >of HIPAA Compliance Officer- If not, they need to start scrambling. The >HIPAA Compliance Officer should be in the loop when the system is designed, >to make sure that it is HIPAA compliant. > >A good place to start learning about HIPAA is > >http://www.hipaalive.com > >HIPAAlive operates a great HIPAA newsgroup- if you encounter questions and >need answers, this would be a good place to get them. > >The CMS (formerly HCFA) website is also a good resource. > >http://www.cms.gov > > > > > >der.hans wrote: > >>Am 15. Sep, 2002 schwätzte DARREN BROWN so: >> >>>I am currently enrolled in a Systems Analysis and Design class. This >>>class we are working on a project as an IT consulting group for New >>>Century Health Clinic. The Clinic as been operating on a paper system >>>since it opened its doors. They curently have no computers to help >>>perform the work. The class groups have been assigned to design a new >>>computer system to get away from all the paper trails. >>> >> >>debian has a package called odontolinux. See if you can coerce that into >>doing what you want. Also look at phpgroupware. Oh, and that GNUe thing >>Derek's working on as well ;-). >> >>It's also rumored that there are a couple of hppa ( or whatever the med >>standard thing is ) projects out there somewhere. >> >>ciao, >> >>der.hans >> > >-- >Lee Einer > >"Whatever you set your mind to do, you always should make the road before >you wide open, so that all people may traverse it. This is the concern of a >great man. If the way is narrow and perilous, so that others cannot go on >it, then you yourself will not have any place to set foot either." - >Huanglong, A Song dynasty zen master. > > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com