SW for school project

[Lee Einer]

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.