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# Shits up the cunting fuck!
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:25, archived)
# But it's raining outside he walked
No not that, who's Darren? I don't know
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:27, archived)
# I like how your umbrella makes your elbows flinch.
Fetching. arousing. riddled with glee, yet so distant.

(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:53, archived)
# Goddammit I fucking hate HIPAA!!!
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:28, archived)
# This!
It's not a bad idea, mind, but so poorly defined it's difficult to implement.

and it makes you gay.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:40, archived)
# hip-hipaa hip-hip-hipaa
flip it out we'll cruise at hyper-speed...
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:55, archived)
# I don't get it
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:28, archived)
# What?
That's un-American!
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:29, archived)
# huh?
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:30, archived)
# 'mericun thing
for making medical records private through encryption (and other things). It's fun to communicate privately to a lot of people without defining how the privacy is accomplished.

(I'm at least 16 hours into this project. Yes, I'm bitter.)
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:32, archived)
# Sounds grrrrrrrrrrrreat
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:34, archived)
# I'm considering using Rot13 encoding.
technically, it complies.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:39, archived)
# and making it way too fucking hard to treat patients
keeping records and other vital information from different treating doctors
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:38, archived)
# The patients are too ignorant to maintain access...
...but often, so are the doctors.

It's not going to get better soon, I'm afraid.

The antagonists are the data-mining companies, like doubleclick and DHS. Information wants to be free, yet private. If we can learn to treat it this way, it'll make the world better.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:45, archived)
# I think its some American medical privacy law type thingy
I wasn't aware anyone in the real world gave a fetid dingos kidney though. Maybe it self-fulfilling - give all the IT staff headaches to bring in more business for the doctors?
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:31, archived)
# Hardly.
It's a requirement, and I work for a Hospice foundation.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:36, archived)
# I know - it was just such a weird thing to see on b3ta
Most rants tend to be a bit more mainstream.

However, take a look at www.postx.com/solutions/healthcare - may be able to help you on the email side of things.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:39, archived)
# Thanks for that.
I'm trying to keep things open-source (for unbeatable security auditing and corrections/improvements). I'll look into it, deeply, later.

Fedora Core/3 and Qmail platform. Squirrelmail for webmail and owt.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:51, archived)
# I ph33r you may be 2 133t for me,
for I do not get it.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:29, archived)
# Nor do I, dear.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:31, archived)