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RAIN 04/10: Digital archives, lost papers found, XML, NARA budget , patient records



AMA News 4/16/01
Your practice is closing. Where will the medical records go?
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_01/bisb0416.htm

by Julie A. Jacobs
When a medical group shuts down due to bankruptcy or other reasons, it's
important to have a plan in place to ensure that patient medical records are
either transferred to the patients' new physicians or stored for several
years in compliance with state and federal regulations.
If the medical group's physicians and administrators don't have a procedure
in place, the result can be chaos, as the situations with KPC Medical
Management in Southern California and the Casa Blanca Clinic in Gilbert,
Ariz., illustrate.




The Technique 4/6/01
April Fool's housing joke hits Georgia Tech
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010407/odd-208

by Nasir Barday
(U-WIRE) ATLANTA -- According to the Department of Housing, an individual
whose identity was not known at the time of publication sent a mass April
Fools e-mail at about 8:00 p.m. on Sunday evening to certain Georgia Tech
students who had been chosen for the room selection process for Fall
housing.
The e-mail, forged to appear as if it came from the department's
information@housing.gatech.edu address, informed recipients that their
selection numbers had been recalculated because a lawsuit had been filed
against Georgia Tech Auxiliary services.



The Daily Free Press 4/4/01
Boston U. faculty member recalls King's death 33 years later
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010404/politics-248

by Bill Yelenak
(U-WIRE) BOSTON -- To this day, Howard Gotlieb, Boston University's Director
of Special Collections, has no trouble vividly remembering where he was on
April 4, 1968.
"I was in my office at BU, and I received the first report from the
Associated Press, which telephoned me immediately," Gotlieb said. "His
lawyer, people at the University and people elsewhere telephoned me. We were
in turmoil."
The news Gotlieb received in those phone calls was that Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. had been assassinated by a sniper in Memphis, Tenn., as he spoke in
support of black garbage workers who were on strike.


Wired.com 4/9/01
Digitizing Archives Not so Easy
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42842,00.html

by Kendra Mayfield
Millions of books in the Library of Congress have deteriorated to the point
where they can't be lent to users without risking irreparable damage.
Centuries-old print newspaper archives have been replaced by blurry reels of
outdated microfilm degraded from years of overuse and time worn chemicals.
With the limits of analog technology, some say that digital storage is the
wave of the future.
"It's clear that our culture is moving towards electronic preservation,"
said Jack Rakove, a history and American studies professor at Stanford
University. "It's cheaper, more efficient and easier to search."



Wired.com 4/9/01
Is U.S. history becoming history?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42725,00.html

by Jeffrey Benner
The workings of government in the first decades of the information era have
been poorly recorded, archiving experts say. Years of valuable public
records may have already been lost, creating a gap in the country's
historical record.
Archivists, government watchdog groups and investigative reporters worry
that unless the problem is solved, the lack of information could make it
more difficult to hold government officials accountable for their decisions
and policies.
"We know less about information in the information age," said Patrice
McDermott, a records management analyst with government watchdog agency OMB
Watch. "It's not just government, corporations have to deal with this too."




Federal Computer Week 4/9/01
Saving it for the future
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0409/pol-save-04-09-01.asp

by Bradley Peniston and Greg Langlois
Some agencies may believe they finally have a handle on producing e-mail,
Web sites and other digital documents. But unless those agencies have also
figured out how to store them - for a year or a generation - they risk
violating federal archiving regulations.
About 150 federal archivists, librarians, computer scientists, online
services vendors and others gathered recently in Washington, D.C., for the
Federal Library and Information Center Committee's 2001 Forum to discuss the
government's scattered stabs at the problem - and the Library of Congress'
new $100 million legislative effort to provide a blueprint for preserving
the government's digital heritage.



Freedomforum.org 4/9/01
Indiana governor concerned about bill to exempt lawmakers from disclosure
laws
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13637

Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Frank O'Bannon said late last week he is "deeply
concerned" about a bill that would exempt the Indiana General Assembly from
the state's disclosure laws.
O'Bannon, whose family owns a newspaper in Corydon, said existing laws are
adequate to protect the interests of both lawmakers and the public.
"Part of it comes from my newspaper background," O'Bannon said April 6
during his weekly meeting with Statehouse reporters. "I've certainly felt
that we should make as many things public as we can."



Charlotte Observer 4/9/01
HIPAA health rules shine spotlight on medical privacy
http://www.charlotte.com/partners/news/full/news_full_1_Apr09.htm

by Mike Stobbe
The complicated health law called HIPAA has been a heated battleground for
federal policy makers and health-care industry types.
Now, enter Suzanne Somers.
Last month, the 54-year-old celebrity thigh master became unhappily
acquainted with the issue of medical records privacy - which is the focus of
the new rules to take effect across the country this week.



International Herald Tribune 4/9/01
Storing files online helps, but bring your own software
http://www.iht.com/articles/16231.html

by Lee Dembart
Paris - One of the hottest ideas in computing these days is the shift from
individual hard drives to central locations for software and storage. Many
people who travel carry laptops with them so they have their files and
documents and necessary programs at hand wherever they go. Or they copy the
things they need to a Zip drive and carry that with them to another place.
.Wouldn't it be easier to store all of that somewhere on the Internet and
access it online? .In fact, you can easily do that now. There are several
sites that offer anywhere from 25 to 300 megabytes of storage space for
free. Xdrive (www.xdrive.com) is good, but the best, I think, is i-drive
(www.idrive.com), which offers the useful feature of easily storing Web
pages that you want to keep. (This feature works only with Internet
Explorer, but both Windows and Macintosh versions.)



Lincoln Journal-Star 4/9/01
State funds sought for renovations
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=2928&date=20010409&past=

by Scott Bauer
Associated Press
Artifacts at the Museum of Nebraska History face degradation because the
temperature and humidity levels where they are stored cannot be controlled.
Millions of dollars in new digital equipment risks being ruined because the
air conditioning system at the state's public television headquarters is
outdated and inadequate.
The Nebraska State Historical Society headquarters has now run out of space
for archival documents.



Lincoln Journal-Star 4/9/01
Symposium explores homestead records
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=2931&past=

by Larry Peirce
BEATRICE - A homestead symposium in June promises researchers an exciting
future of exploring the past through the voluminous records stemming from
the Homestead Act of 1862.
The Land Records and Genealogy Symposium at Southeast Community College here
June 20 and 21 is a joint venture between the college and Homestead National
Monument. Featuring experts in historical records and research, its goal is
to introduce innovative techniques in genealogy and explain the plan to
bring the records of nearly 2 million homesteaders to Homestead National
Monument.



Yahoo.com 4/9/01
Microsoft's ban on e-mail attachments: overkill?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010409/tc/8828_1.html

by Jay Lyman
www.NewsFactor.com
Microsoft's popular e-mail program Outlook 2002, part of the software
maker's new Office XP offering, has been revamped to reject the kinds of
attachments that are often used by hackers to spread viruses. However, some
are concerned that the effort could stifle legitimate file transfers or
promote complacency in users.



Montreal Gazette 4/9/01
Forgeries, seized files, judge's ethics are latest twists in Chretien saga
http://www.southam.com/montrealgazette/newsnow/cpfs/national/010409/n040988.
html

by Stephen Thorne
OTTAWA (CP) - Forgeries, police raids, seized files, a judge's independence,
an alleged spy: the controversy around the prime minister's business
dealings in Shawinigan continued to churn Monday even with Parliament on a
two-week break.
Just when some thought the issue would go away, it rose again - with a
vengeance.
The Prime Minister's Office alleged late Sunday that some seized bank
documents relating to Jean Chretien's lobbying of the Business Development
Bank were forged.
Just what was forged in documents provided to the National Post was unclear.





National Post 4/7/01
Knopf archives: great moments in the history of rejection
http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/arts/books/story.html?f=/stories/200104
07/526396.html

by Andy Lamey
Publishing is doomed. The last 50 years have seen a creeping triumph of
mediocrity as publishers, once valiant champions of high art, have
redirected their energies into crass commercial ventures. In the Fifties,
editors were proud to launch the most daunting of works into the hands of
sophisticated audiences hungry for Proust, Joyce and Stein; today, they show
galley proofs of novels by Ethan Hawke and poems by Jewel to in-house
accountants, awaiting marginal comments indicating which passages ask too
much of readers.
How many times have we heard this declinist lament, publishing's past
described as a foreign, better country? Anyone who has ever doubted its
truth will chuckle over the latest issue of the Missouri Review, a literary
journal published in Columbus, Mo., which contains reader's reports from the
archives of Alfred A. Knopf.



New York Times 4/9/01
Fears on privacy law spur warning by Armey
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/technology/09PRIV.html?searchpv=nytToday

by John Schwartz
Atop Republican leader in the House is sending a strong message to lawmakers
hoping to address the privacy worries of their constituents this year: go
slow.
The message will be delivered today in a letter from the majority leader,
Representative Dick Armey of Texas, to all House Republicans.
The letter's wording is both folksy and stern. "I don't want strangers
poking around in my business any more than they want me poking around in
theirs," Mr. Armey writes, but "in the fast-paced world of the Internet, we
must avoid silver-bullet solutions that will quickly become obsolete or
leave ourselves vulnerable to criticism that the government is not meeting
the standards it requires from others."



New York Times 4/9/01
Media: Few obstacles in controlling of information
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/business/09MEDI.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Felicity Barringer
NEWSPAPERS' basic needs are simple. They need money for presses, paper and
workers. They need readers, the better to get advertising revenue. They need
information, the better to get readers.
At this year's relatively somber convention of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washington, the public and private conversations
indicated that there was less of everything. Less advertising revenue is
likely to mean circulation price increases - which tend to accelerate a
decline in circulation, which has been dropping for 15 years.



New York Times 4/9/01
New Economy: even in downturn, sex still sells
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/technology/09NECO.html?searchpv=nytToday

by John Schwartz
With the dark clouds of hard times filling the skies, many high-technology
companies are cutting back and hunkering down. But some brave entrepreneurs
are continuing to innovate. Take Duocash, a New York company that is
pursuing one of the fondest longtime dreams of technology entrepreneurs and
privacy advocates alike: anonymous, secure payments over the Internet.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks for such systems so far has been to come
up with a form of online cash that businesses and customers will actually
use. Duocash has found a way around the problem - it uses prepaid telephone
long-distance cards, a system already in widespread use.



Yahoo.com 4/9/01
Patient Privacy rules further delayed
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010409/pl/health_privacy_dc_1.html

Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sweeping patient privacy rules issued by the
departing Clinton administration face further delays in implementation while
the government reviews thousands of recent comments, a top U.S. health
official said on Monday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said the department would
not be able to meet the April 14 deadline it had set to review the medical
privacy rules aimed at giving patients more control over their records and
imposing stiff new penalties for unauthorized distribution. He said
officials needed time to consider 24,000 written comments on the issue
received in the last 30 days.


USNewswire 4/9/01
President proposes budget help for the National Archives and Records
Administration
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0409-123.html

WASHINGTON, April 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- President George W. Bush has proposed
budget increases for Fiscal Year 2002 that would enable the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to take the next steps to build
the electronic records archives of the future and advance initiatives under
NARA's Strategic Plan.
The President's budget request includes $20 million for NARA's Electronic
Records Archives, the program through which NARA is developing solutions for
preserving and providing access to the records of the Federal Government in
the digital age.


TechWeb News 4/9/01
XML lifts the burden of paper
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0003

by L. Scott Tillett
InternetWeek
Even in the electronic age, the legal profession is buried under paper. Now
service providers are offering attorneys and courts ways to turn some of
that paper into bits and bytes.
Service provider @court this week will offer eFiling, a service that
electronically connects law offices and courts. The company equips courts
with a free software tool kit that lets administrators connect their legacy
systems to @court's Internet clearinghouse using Legal XML, an emerging
standard.


Salt Lake Tribune 4/8/01
Trove of papers sheds light on Idaho senator's career
http://www.sltrib.com/04082001/nation_w/86764.htm

by Melanie Carroll
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho -- For decades, the boxes collected dust in a storage area of a
Senate office building in Washington, D.C.
The seven missing cartons, filled with correspondence, memoranda, speeches,
news releases and notes from foreign trips chronicle the beginning of Idaho
Democrat Frank Church's U.S. Senate career.


Toronto Star 4/9/01
Digging through past provides clues to future
Hotter, stormier, wetter world isn't worst scenario
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by Peter Calamai
Science Reporter
Anyone already fretting about global warming probably shouldn't talk to
University of Toronto professor Dick Peltier, a lead player in the
scientific quest to uncover the telltale rhythms of past climates.
A hotter, wetter world with higher sea levels and more extreme storms isn't
the worst that can happen, say paleoclimatologists like Peltier, citing
studies stretching back more than 500 million years. Not by a long shot.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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