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Striving for HIPAA Compiance?
krisguy asks: "As a Oxygen Transfill Technician for a DME (Durable Medical Equipment - wheelchairs, oxygen, and such) company, my only regulatory problems have been with the FDA. Recently, due to good management of FDA regulations, I was appointed HIPAA security officer for my company. I looked at the 'helpful' compliance manual from our buying group, and realized that I have to try to get over twenty people who have 'limited knowledge of computers' (read: don't want to learn) to begin to use stuff like PGP, ANSI X12 codes, and having to write, train, and enforce procedure rules. To top this all off, I only have until April 14, 2003 to get most of this fully functional or forced to have the company shut down. I am wondering if any Slashdot readers in medical fields are feeling the pain of HIPAA like I am right now, and what ways can I get everyone to comply besides "You don't do it, you don't work here."?" Ask Slashdot last touched on HIPAA issues when this article which concerned itself with Windows 2000 and HIPAA issues. For those who have already hopped thru the rings that represent HIPAA compliance on an general basis, what did you have to insure was done?
"HIPAAA"? (It's HIPAA.) "Compiance"? (Try "compliance.") I don't want this to turn into another "stupid editor tricks" rant, but I'm really getting annoyed.
/. editors, we know, have wants and desires like any other human. Most of them seem to want open source to win. Do they not realize that taking the tiny amount of effort necessary to proofread and edit the story submissions and titles, would go a significant way toward reducing the perception of /. as a bunch of hyperactive nerds? (No, I don't see us that way, but a lot of non-geeks do.) If the editors really truly do want open source to "win" (whatever that would mean), they could do a lot just by ensuring that the front of the site looks competent, rather than incompetent.
/. regulars who don't come here for what the editors have to say, but rather the discussions by the users.)
Do these guys really care? Honestly, this is sad. The
I'm not claiming they have some kind of journalistic duty here; it's just normal freakin' common sense. If you write like you don't care, people will assume you don't care, and will ignore you. (Not, of course, the
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
It's really quite undignified of you.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
1. Get a CUSTOM form written by a sleezy lawyer absolvig you of all responsibility and have an Principle of the firm sign it.
2. Get a raise, in writing, for the new monumentous duties.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
By the way, just for the kiddies out there: breathing pure oxygen slowly harms the lungs (especially at elevated pressures, which is why they use heliox instead of pure oxygen for really deep sea dives), so don't do it unless you need it. Oxygen bars are such a joke. I saw one in the local mall. $15 for 10 minutes of breathing pure oxygen.... Oooooh, and kids, don't do whippits too much.. excessive nitrous use can lead to muscular weakness.
Copyright Violation:"theft, piracy"::Anti-Trust Violation:"thermonuclear price terrorism"<-Overly dramatic language.
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Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
I am beginning to really like HIPAA. It seems
to require that everyone in each medical
organization be mindful of security and privacy.
With any luck, this will force all the
boneheaded medical stuff to get a second
bachelors degree in computer science. Then
maybe this will propagate until computer
literacy (sufficient to run and configure e.g. HURD)
will be required for any job, just like
regular literacy is today. With laws like these
twenty years from now could be sweet time to
be around.
Pure oxygen is NEVER used in diving (rebreathers aside.. that's another story).
Not quite true - some people (mainly deep divers) use 100% O2 for accelerated decompression.
The closest thing you get is enriched air diving, and that has a very limited depth (much less than what you can do on standard compressed air, which is what most recreational divers use). Enriched air is used to stay at shallower depths longer (you can train yourself to breathe slower, due to the higher oxygen count, and stay down longer) and is great for sightseeing on coral reefs and whatnot
Close - there are a couple of reasons for using Nitrox:
1) Reduces risk of decompressions sickness
2) Reduces Nitrogen Narcosis.
3) Reduces fatigue (could be psychological, but it's definitely true)
4) Extends no decompression bottom time (the time you spend at your target depth).
I've certainly not noticed a decrease in air consumption at depth when using nitrox.
Different gas mixes are used the deeper you go, but all of them have a lower oxygen percentage than standard air; the higher the pressure, the less actual oxygen you want in that air.
Absolutely not true - while, when you start going to silly depths, you do get what are called hypoxic mixes (less than 21% O2), these are rare. Most Trimix divers use normoxic mixes (21% 02) or hyperoxic mixes. The main reason is that if you are using a hypoxic mix you have more helium and less oxygen, and this gets really expensive. Hypoxic mixes can also make you pass out if you try breathing them in shallow water.
Wait, it gets worse. Opened it with KWord. The only formats are bolds, centering, ?unicode?, and a few hyperlinks, that differ from normal html by only a few control characters which must only work for word. Why, oh why, would anyone use Word to publish something like that? Nothing different or useful was added by word. All word did was make it a little harder for me to read the thing presented.
I appreciate the effort, but please don't use Word. If you must use Word, save it as text or html. If word won't do that don't use word for things you want to share or cut and paste into another text editor that will do this. Remember that you yourself may not be able to read what you write in Word after the next "upgrade" and that most of your effort making the format just so will be wasted.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
If they gave you the responsibility to do it, but not the authority to make it happen, then I'd say they purposely made you the fall guy.
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