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RAIN 08/01:Buster Keaton and insurance



Boston Globe 7/31/00
Online medical records seen empowering patients
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/213/nation/Online_medical_records_seen_emp
owering_patients+.shtml

by Liz Kowalczyk
When Richard Fosler arrived for his Friday afternoon appointment cradling a
sore elbow, his doctor immediately requested an X-ray. He then sent the
results to a specialist for confirmation. Three business days later, Fosler
logged onto the Internet and got his final answer.
He clicked open a file called ''review radiology results,'' spotted the
words ''no evidence of fracture'' and was pleased. But while he was perusing
his medical records online, he discovered a mistake: An ankle X-ray listed
his age as 49.
''I immediately e-mailed my doctor with a correction,'' said Fosler, 44, an
electrical engineer who lives in Marlborough.




Fresno Bee 7/31/00
Computer registry will track Valley immunization records
http://www.fresnobee.com/localnews/story/0,1724,181795,00.html

by Kerri Ginis
A proposed computer registry linking five county health departments is
expected to help track childhood immunization records throughout the Central
Valley, public health officials said.
The establishment of the Central Valley Immunization Information System will
connect Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Madera and Kern counties using one computer
database so health-care workers can access medical records regardless of
where a child was immunized.
Currently, there is no way to check immunization records from one county to
the next because each health department has its own computer system and
software.


The Clarion Ledger 7/31/00
More state spy files opened
Segregationist agency's veil of secrecy gone
http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0007/31/31sov.html

by Jerry Mitchell
More secrets from the state's segregationist spy files will trickle out
today.
The state Department of Archives and History will open 6,000 more pages of
the now-defunct Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, which operated from 1956
to 1973.
Those pages will include such famous names in the civil rights movement as
the late state NAACP President Aaron Henry and Charles Evers, who had many
of his files sealed because many of Henry's had been sealed.



Business Wire 7/25/00
New Cuadra software for Document/Records Management now certified by the DoD
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000725/ca-cuadra-associates

LOS ANGELES (BUSINESS WIRE) - STAR/RIMS-E, the new client-server software
for managing both electronic and non-electronic documents, was certified in
July by the Department of Defense (DoD) as compliant with DoD 5015.21-STD.
This is the records management application standard developed for DoD
organizations and endorsed by the National Archives and Records
Administration for use by other federal agencies.
The new product, developed by Los Angeles-based Cuadra Associates Inc.,
supports the full range of records management -- from active to retired and
archived documents. Both incoming and outgoing documents can be flagged for
storage in the organization's "corporate memory," for easy information and
electronic-document retrieval.



Business Wire 7/31/00
eOriginal's patented process to create electronic original documents first
to be underwritten
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000725/md-eoriginal

BALTIMORE (BUSINESS WIRE) - eOriginal, the pioneering creator of patented
Electronic Original(TM) documents and source records, today announced that
documents created through their process will be insured through the Kemark
Group, a major "A" rated global underwriter.
The policy covers monetary damages up to $1 million for electronic mortgage
transactions, and up to $2 million for leasing transactions. There is no
aggregate limit of liability on the policy, and underwriting facility will
provide, on an as needed basis, any additional limit as requested or
required by an eOriginal client.


eWeek 7/31/00
Service providers catch paper chase
http://www8.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2609339,00.html

by Evan Koblentz
On the surface, a wireless startup and a state motor vehicle department have
little in common. But when each faced similar problems taming mounting
document requirements, both found the answer in a hosted application.
A new breed of ASP (application service provider) specializing in enterprise
documentation management is helping companies find a better way to deal with
records, invoices, product manuals, CAD drawings or any important document.
The ASP takes care of storing, organizing and safeguarding the material,
leaving clients to focus on their businesses.



Los Angeles Times 7/29/00
In Buster Keaton's silence, echoes of historic L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000729/t000071121.html

by Ann-Marie O'Connor
Little speaks more to Los Angeles' ambivalent relationship with its past
than its record on historic preservation--even when it comes to Hollywood
legends like silent film star Buster Keaton.
Most of Keaton's silent movie classics were made in the early 1900s. And so
little remains of his old Hollywood locations that they might have been
built during the Holy Roman Empire.
One of Keaton's favorite exteriors has been usurped by a Jack in the Box.
The fire station he used for chase scenes and sight gags has morphed into a
forgettable beige office building whose reflective windows wink shamelessly
at a Scientology marquee.
A bronze plaque marking the site of Keaton's film studio off Cahuenga
Boulevard was finally set in the sidewalk in the 1980s--on the wrong corner.



Birmingham News 7/26/00
DA's office to investigate allegations of absentee ballot tampering
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Jul2000/26-e332207b.html

by Robert K. Gordon
The Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney's Office on Tuesday said it will
review allegations of absentee ballot tampering and shredding, which the
loser of the 1998 Bessemer mayor's race says cost him the election.
Terry Massey met three Jefferson County sheriff's investigators at Bessemer
Cutoff District Attorney Sam Russell's office Tuesday. Massey said he
presented proof of voter fraud.


Don't let the beginning of the next article turn you off. A really
fascinating story about an archivist.

Washington Post 7/31/00
Marko Zlatich & his uniform univision
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8175-2000Jul31.html

by Phil McCombs
Some weeks back, having nothing better to do of an afternoon, I took in "The
Patriot." It was terrific.
They've finally managed to make the Revolutionary War come alive! That scene
where Mel Gibson gallops up to the battlefield holding aloft a big American
flag--well, I choked up. I don't care what you say about how corny and
simplistic the movie is, I liked it plenty.
Through much of it, I noticed, Mel was melting down leaden toy soldiers and
making bullets of them. They'd belonged to one of his four sons, butchered
by the Brits. Mel's revenge on the Redcoats--as he frees another son--is
Sophoclean in scale and savagery.
What a dad!


Fort Worth Star Telegram 7/30/00
Federal electronic signature law will let customers seal deals without ink
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:BIZ11C/1:BIZ11C0730100.html

by Glen Fest
To buy a car or close on a house, you may no longer need your John Hancock.
The enactment of a federal electronic signature law in October will make
paperwork optional for various online transactions. Automobile and home
loans, insurance policy purchases and product disclosure statements are
among the legal pacts being freed for online delivery.
Experts said the end of ink-on-paper is unlikely. E-commerce technology and
methodology have to make strides, and some people remain cyber-phobic, they
said.



Boston Globe 7/31/00
Mississippi segregation spy documents released with rebuttals
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/213/nation/Mississippi_segregation_spy_do:.s
html

by Timothy R. Brown
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) More documents kept by Mississippi's now-defunct
segregationist spy agency are now available to the public, but this time
there's something new: rebuttals from spying victims.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History released 6,000 additional
documents Monday compiled by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
from 1956 to the 1970s. The agency was created to preserve segregation in
Mississippi's racially divided climate.
The files were initially held back from the public at the request of
individuals who argued their right to privacy would be violated.







Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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