The best site I know of for all things HIPAA is


http://www.hipaadvisory.com/

If you are encountering  any of the HIPAA issues (software security, 
privacy, andministrative simplification) it may be worth your while to 
join their newsgroup. If you are working for a medical provider, they 
should have one or several designated HIPAA officers who are responsible 
for ensuring HIPAA compliance, and you will probably want to touch bases 
with them also.

Lee Einer

der.hans wrote:

>Am 04. Jan, 2003 schwätzte Kevin Brown so:
>
>>I remember months back some members of PLUG talking about HIPA regulations
>>and things like hospitals having to be compliant due to the need for
>>privacy and security of patient medical records.
>>
>
>Look at the GNUMed project if you're going into that space.
>
>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
>
>Don't know what it's supposed to be doing, but it might be pertinent for
>your company.
>
>>The concerns are with allowing 802.11 wireless access to our network and
>>using Wireless bridges to link up some labs that are near each other.
>>Does anyone have any advice/pointers that could help?
>>
>
>If they're using the wireless points to connect two locations, then you can
>tunnel traffic, just like you would for home<=>business VPN accross the Net.
>
>David Uhlman suggested an authentication mechanism during his wireless
>presentation a few months ago. I don't remember what it is and don't know
>where my notes are. I think ASU is using it or something similar. You'd know
>more about that than I do ;-).
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
>