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While working as a senior consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, Yvette partnered with MAC Cosmetics and a local beauty parlor, Chez George to create a very special event to empower local battered women. The event, “New Year, New Do and a New You”, allowed the women to receive new hair styles and professionally done makeovers conducted by the MAC Cosmetics make-up artists. This combination of outreach and inspiration is exactly the kind of forward giving momentum that Yvette has dedicated her life’s work to

She is also a writer and regular contributor and commentator to nationally acclaimed websites and television networks such as BETTER TV.

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There is no mention of project management anywhere on that website.

Another source dated February 2015 says she is "Network Services Program Manager Government Programs at Emblem Health", which laid off hundreds of IT workers when it outsourced to Cognizant in April 2016.

Guess which large-scale EMR physicians prefer above all others? That would be VistA. I've heard the same from colleagues, and found it reasonably sensible back when I rotated through the local VA as a family medicine resident. It was fast and fairly benign on the infuriation scale. Of course, the VA is apparently working with Accenture to update VistA, and are eventually looking to replace it with a commercial system. I have a feeling many VA docs will offer this to be prized from their cold, dead hands.

And for all the griping about MUMPS, whose syntax (especially in legacy code) I agree looks like a cat walking across the keyboard, in real life on our MUMPS-based EMR it is faster and far more reliable than the Oracle-based system we upgraded from.

For those that like to RTFA, It might have been
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
or
http://www.healthcareitnews.co...

It looks like Epic isn't based on Vista as I assumed - but still uses the same M(UMPS) based technology. A comparison of the two systems can be found in a Healthcare IT News blog article.

Vista has an interesting history. Because it was built using US Federal Government money, the "Hard Hats" who worked on it originally successfully argued for the release of its source code into the public domain. It's essentially open source, paid by the public purse and - despite the M language - a successful example of where interoperability between healthcare IT systems can really work.

We've had decades of development in open standards. HL7 for all its ugliness is a great system and has really driven interoperability. For Epic to "go it alone" seems a real shame. And patently stupid - but then we've had similar stupid in my country (Australia).

Not surprising, really. The only time companies get punished for non-compliance is when they are the ones accessing protected health information. No threat of punishment == no compliance.

That's not the case at all. HIPAA makes a distinction between covered entities (usually hospitals, doctors, insurance companies), business associates (people providing services for covered entities such as medical coding, transcription, IT services, etc.) that require access to protected health information, and everyone else who isn't allowed to access protected health information. If a covered entity loses or discloses protected health information, or is breached, that entity is responsible for fines under HIPAA, which are being levied regularly. e.g. http://www.healthcareitnews.co...

How many times will tapes be stolen from a car before these people wise up? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/108101/Update_Thief_nabs_backup_data_on_365_000_patients?taxonomyId=084 About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records. In an announcement yesterday, Providence Home Services, a division of Seattle-based Providence Health Systems, said the records and other data were on several disks and tapes stolen from the car of a Providence employee at his home. **** http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/07/26/800000-stolen-social-security-numbers-a-22-year-old-scapegoat/ A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers. A backup tape was stolen from his car last month containing at least 770,000 social security numbers (with the corresponding names) for Ohio taxpayers. It also contained the social security numbers for another 64,000 state employees. Today the intern issued a statement with his side of the story. **** http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/patient-billing-records-stolen-utah-hospital Billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors were reported stolen this week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics. Backup tapes of patient billing records, which were contained in a metal box, were stolen from a car belonging to an independent storage company, Perpetual Storage, Inc., which is contracted by the healthcare system. The system sends the backup tapes off-site for storage for disaster recovery purposes.

Perhaps my original post was a bit too salty? :)

At any rate I do find it troubling to see this on the horizon.

I do not really care for my web browser to do anything other than display useful information and be efficient at doing it.

I also do not want my browser to be a flashing billboard on the information super highway. :)

Whether it's on my desktop or on my smart phone. I would prefer that be executed as quickly and quietly as possible without any crashes, hangs, or complaints.

Perhaps I am showing my age, but once upon a time browsers did that you know, before they became something like the those annoying billboards in, "Minority Report".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbVD5hlddk

Also, but not to start a flame here, I cite the following sources as to where things appear to be going for the average consumer.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9575

http://news.cnet.com/Mozilla-aims-for-mobile-browser-market/2100-1032_3-5483683.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/aug/21/business.newmedia

I honestly think IE should have stopped at 6.X, 7.X has been constant trouble for me.

Thank you for the discussion!
Joe