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Movies and Medical Records
November 3, 2009 8:30 AM by Mark McGraw
It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language Film, 2008 Venice Film Festival" sticker on it. But tonight you're in the mood for a poorly acted and Read More...
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Diagnosis: Difficult?
June 24, 2009 12:29 PM by Mark McGraw
Most Seinfeld fans certainly remember "The Package" episode, involving a subplot in which Elaine Benes is unable to find a doctor willing to treat her troublesome rash. Branded a "difficult" patient by her primary care physician, Benes scours New York Read More...
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Cloudbusting
March 10, 2009 8:46 AM by Bob Mitchell
With your head in the cloud as you hear Kate Bush's ethereal voice singing Cloudbusting, her shrill voice is trailing off..."The sun's coming out..." We were sitting in an editorial planning meeting awhile back and the topic of cloud computing came up. Read More...
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A HIPAA Typo
May 13, 2008 2:04 PM by Bob Mitchell
As the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) got in full swing a few years ago, I received several press releases from software vendors or consultants who touted that they were there to help health care organizations with Read More...
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Preventing ID Theft After Tax Day
April 15, 2008 2:07 PM by Frank Irving
This blog post applies to personal identity protection, but the recommendations make good sense for any computing environment. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that a record 77 million tax returns were filed electronically for tax year 2006. Read More...
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Happy 50th Anniversary, DARPA
April 11, 2008 9:41 AM by Bob Mitchell
You may have missed the celebration this week, but 50 years ago then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in response to Russia's surprise launch of the first man-made satellite, Sputnik. At the Read More...
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Passing the Passwords and Trusting No One
November 19, 2007 5:44 PM by Bob Mitchell
When people sit down at their computers, it seems as though they’re pretty much willing to share personal information online. Why don’t I feel comfortable doing this? I’m probably more trusting of others than most people, so you would think that I would Read More...
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Databases Exposed
November 14, 2007 4:36 PM by Bob Mitchell
An item on IDG News Service caught my attention this afternoon. It was about a survey that shows that many more databases are exposed to hackers than ever before, due to lax firewalls and other security measures. According to information security researcher Read More...
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We're Only Human
November 13, 2007 11:56 AM by Jim Boyle
My four year-old son recently discovered that we own a computer. In just a few short weeks, he has learned how to operate a mouse and play online games on his own. He’s so confident that once I set up the Web site, he orders me to leave so he can play Read More...
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