Jul
13
Best of Niner Niner July 06
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Niner Niner, a collaborative weblog network, has over 25 great blogs and this “Best Of” highlights just a few of the posts that were written by some of the Niner authors, in topics that range from High Heels, Ajax, HIPAA Privacy Regulation to gadgets, books and health.
In Ajax Blog, Sreejith introduces us to a few new things. First is Vox a new blogging service from Six Apart that uses WYSIWYG with a taste of web 2.0. After that we learn about Krun.ch and Wishlistr.
Blogging Naked: Scarification and lip plates are shown to be some of the newest and more popular form of “self-expression” in recent years.
Bookadoodle: Nancy Callahan posted more in her series “Getting Published” and this latest edition was part 5.
Boomer 2.0 had posts that pointed out that boomers can still have that second career and another that shows many are not even planning retirement anytime soon.
In Class Action Questions find out about lawsuits involving pyramid scams, hair raising beauty product claims and why State Farm was penalized.
Credit Cardenza: Unfortunately, millions of people are drowning in credit card debt, have to worry about credit scams and fraud, and let’s not even talk about the international fees.
Dealsneak managed to sneak more than a few deals pass us this summer including, the Samsonite laptop case, a gorgeous leather bench, and a sweet looking Thermaltake Tsunami computer case.
Feed Money discusses the fact the Ebay has jumped on the contextual ad bandwagon as well as blog feeds and a program called RSS To Blog.
If you need to Fix Your Finances one of the first steps is learning how to save your money. After that you can check out Mvelopes to learn all about budgets.
At Games For Money you can find places to play free online gambling games and also learn some card counting tricks and tips.
The High Heels Blogs show us which killer heels are on sale including boots, sandals, slides and mules. Also take a look at some killer wedding heels for this summers nuptials.
A few notable gadgets that were blogged in the HyperGadget blog were the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, and the jumbled and messy looking organizer.
Over at the Medcare Forum, Kathleen Milazzo tells us more about that scary mad cow disease and our medical privacy laws.
Find out just how much house you can afford before you go running off to get that mortgage. And is the housing bubble really ready to blow? All this and more in Mortgage Updates.
At My Secret Side Biz learn how to make a profit, how to get your own powerwash, and simple business and Ebay tips.
On Healthy Living: Sarah White tells us all about a new study that could help with asthma reduction when it comes to do light exercise that involves stead breathing like yoga.
On Movies has a decade of super heroes list that includes recent and unreleased movies. Leafworks reviewed The Omen and we got to see the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie.
Powersellers Blog: Ebay has done it. They finally reached 200 million members and they are also expanding into new ideas. Also people are fed up with Paypal while crooks are finding more ways to defraud your account.
Seo Updates: Yahoo one of the biggest email services was hit with a worm and Google expanded into real estate but won’t be making a browser, at least not anytime soon.
Get some free exercise tips from The Diet Logs. You will certainly need them if you plan to take a bite of this $100 burger.
Living the Single life? Well take a look at some great break up lines and if your looking to meet people Leafworks posted a great review of club La Rumba.
Thumb Gods: Nintendo is no, no to the name Wii for their new console a game system that is at the end of this long list containing The Evolution of Video Game Consoles.
Las Vegas Revealed that it was ill prepared for a massive disaster, but til then you can still get married and get comp’d in Vegas.
Wander the World, well the State of Colorado with Leafworks. He takes us to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Gothnic in Denver, Old Colorado City, Plaza del Arte Festival in Downtown Denver and Garden of the Gods.
Apr
22
HIPAA Deadline Passes with Little Fanfare
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Well, the deadline to complete the security requirements of HIPAA passed yesterday with little fanfare.
Internet News has the scoop:
“Considering everything that is involved with compliance, there are a lot of factors as to why some companies may not have completed it,” Earl Crane, a senior consultant with Foundstone Professional Services, said. Foundstone, a subsidiary of McAfee, is a leading HIPAA consultant and security software provider.
Some scary compliance stats:
However, a study from Information Technology Solution Providers Alliance shows that only 30 percent of health plans and 18 percent of health care providers in the SMB market are in compliance with the regulations.
“They’ve got their own fires to put out,” Crane said. “It doesn’t happen out of laziness but rather a crunch for resources,” he said.
Apr
12
Good-old Fashioned Theft (reveals patient’s health data)
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Your data may be protected from internal tampering and data-snooping of employees… but what if your physical hardware is stolen?
The other ‘HIPAA Blog’ reports:
Sometimes identity theft and potential HIPAA-violating disclosures of PHI are sidelights of simple crime.
You can read the MSNBC article here.
Jeff continues:
Here, theives broke into a medical office and stole the easily-salable valuables (computers and electronic equipment). The problem, of course, is that there is PHI on those computers. Perhaps a lesson in using encryption-at-rest for your databases?
This reminds me of the backdoor ways that hackers often use to compromise computer systems.
Often-times the easiest method to compromise computer systems is not to “crack” the computer code, but rather to use a roundabout method such as “social engineering.” This method involves tricking employees to reveal critical passwords or other secret company data.
Now, stealing an entire computer hardware system is a bit more brute-force, but uses the same techniques. In all actuality, though, the thieves are more interested in the resale value of the machines, not the private data that they’ve come into posession of. (unless they are some really sophisticated thieves)
Mar
23
HIPAA creates new job opportunities – Paper Shredding business
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More and more people are realizing that there are new business opportunities relating to HIPAA and HIPAA compliance. In Colorado one doctor started a mobile paper shredding company to help service companies that fall under the requirements of HIPAA and FACTA.
The Pueblo Chieftain Online – Pueblo, Colorado U.S.A
With the passage of HIPAA and now the imminent implementation of the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, nearly every business of any size will be facing higher standards for the protection of their clients’ personal information.
FACTA requires that virtually any documents containing any personal information be destroyed before they are discarded, so businesses of all sizes will be required to be sure that the personal information of their clients is protected.
Failure to do so could result in hefty fines.
The regulation takes effect in June, so the timing could be right for Pueblo’s Mobile Record Shredders.
“I’ve been hit with a lot of patient privacy and HIPAA requirements,” Anaya said. “So I was looking for ways to get documents destroyed and found that nobody was doing it on-site, locally.”
So Anaya and his wife, Julie, joined with Joe and Kellie O’Brien to start Mobile Record Shredders.
Nov
12
HIPAA Job of the Day: Business / Systems Analyst with HIPAA Experience
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Here’s today’s interesting HIPAA-related job posting (via HIPAAClicks.com):
Business / Systems Analyst with HIPAA experience
Pay Rate:
Term: Fulltime
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota
Length: Contract to Direct
Date Posted: 11/12/2004Description: Perform activities as the Systems Analyst / Quality Analyst that support our clients Consumer & Financial Services division. Responsible for analysis and documentation of system process requirements and procedures related to the coding and execution of the system modification to support business. Translate Business Requirements to Systems Specifications needed for Technical Design. Understand and evaluate the project scope and requirements and by evaluating the best system solution. Work with business areas to develop and finalize use cases and test plans/scripts. Coordinate and conduct system requirements walkthroughs with Business Owners and Design / Development teams. Responsible for closely aligning with and collaborating with the business owners/business sponsor areas to validate functional requirements and achieve systems Integration test signoff. Accountable for assisting with the planning and execution of overall application testing to insure application meets all approved service requests and/and or business requirements. Manage execution of standard testing processes procedures and practices based on methodology and provide overall application testing coordination. Ensure compliance with standard Delivery Framework methodology. Work with Release Manager to secure sign off from Business User and Sponsor on final documentation of system requirements. Assist in coordination of project team analysis, issue resolution and documentation of findings. Identify, escalate and document changes in scope or requirements affecting system requirements. Assist in the management and validation of workplan activities. Qualified candidates should also have experience with use case, technical requirements documentation, functional and technical specifications creation and sequence diagrams.This is a contract-to-hire opportunity. Local candidates are given preference. All candidates must meet minimum requirements for experience and all resume submissions must have qualifications listed. Corp.-to-Corp. arrangements are available on a limited basis. Candidates should email resumes to the listed email address – NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. CSA/Tobin, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For information about our company and more job listings please visit www.csatobin.com.
Job Requirement: Business Analysis (7 yrs)HIPAA (1-3 yrs)Spec Writing (7 yrs)Test Plans (4 yrs)Healthcare Insurance (desired)
If you fit the bill, you should check it out. Posted on Pick A Job. Also check out HIPAA Jobs for a lot more listings.