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RAIN 01/06 (17): Weekend Update 01/02/02



There are 17 stories in this posting.



Dallas Morning New 01/02/02
Request to destroy files questioned
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.eb25baa019.b0.af.0.a4.96bf.html

by Glynn Wilson
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana Secretary of State Fox McKeithen took the threat seriously when he was told that two truckloads of environmental records - some containing evidence in an ongoing federal criminal probe - had been contaminated by mold, could be hazardous, and should be destroyed.



Asia Pulse 01/02/02
China's Shenzhen enacts law to protect personal credibility
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/020102/16/28r7a.html

SHENZHEN, Jan 2 Asia Pulse - Local legislation designed to protect personal credibility came into effect in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on January.
According to the Shenzhen City Regulation on Administration of Personal Credit Information Gathering and Ratings, personal credit information consists of a local resident's ID, his or her commercial credibility, reports on his or her social and public activities, as well as special records related to civil, criminal, administrative litigation or disciplinary penalties.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/02/02
Dictionary of deceased
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBWA83HYVC.html

by Gary Robertson
Nearly every day at the Library of Virginia, someone collects newspapers from around the state and turns to the obituary section.
The recently deceased who have achieved special prominence during their lifetimes stand a good chance of having their names added to "the list."
The list is long - more than 19,000 names so far - and a growing record of Virginia luminaries and lesser lights.



InfoWorld 12/19/01
Disk drives from World Trade Center could yield clues
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/19/011219hnconvar.xml?0101tustorage

by Rick Perera
A NEW DATA recovery technique could help trace suspicious financial transactions made shortly before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.



MaineToday.com 01/02/02
DOT files destined for computers
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/020102dot_scan.shtml

by Dan McGillvray
AUGUSTA - About 1.3 million pages of information at the state Department of Transportation will be scanned into a computer system over the next four months.



Durango Herald 12/30/01
Records are few for indigent, babies buried at Greenmount
http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news011230_2.htm

by Bob Schober
Winnie Mae Miears has been living a 40-year nightmare, filled with recurrent dreams of searching for her baby daughter, who was buried in a far corner of Greenmount Cemetery.



Enterprise-Journal 01/01/02
Students chasing big story run into officials' roadblock
http://www.enterprise-journal.com/NF/omf/ejournal/ssiuname=WebOSTTN/ssipwd=TTN3D42F669/news/news_story.html?rkey=0014312+sid=20011231112500.A9B6E+cat=news

AP
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two student journalists catch the hint of a good story - a possible cover-up dances just beyond grasp.
But the student reporters are young, have no publication to back them up and are refused the information they seek.



Grainnet 01/02/02
OSHA recordkeeping rule now in effect, new injury logs introduced
http://www.grainnet.com/info/articles.html?type=ec&ID=12932

Simpler, easier to follow requirements for tracking workplace injuries and illnesses are now in force for 1.4 million employers covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new recordkeeping rule.
"The new recordkeeping system is easier for employers to understand, better protects employee privacy in sensitive cases and will yield more accurate injury and illness data," said OSHA Administrator John L. Henshaw.



Guardian 01/02/02
1901 census goes online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,626730,00.html

The public record (PRO) office today published an online version of the 1901 census, opening up records of 32.5m residents of Edwardian Britain, although thoroughly modern server problems blocked access to the material.



Health Data Management 01/02/02
Electronic Blueprint helps CIOs manage data flow
http://209.207.24.203/html/current/CurrentIssueStory.cfm?PostID=10339

by Joseph Goedert
When Orthopaedic Associates of Grand Rapids (Mich.) went searching for practice management and computer-based patient records software, it engaged Doyen Consulting Inc. to analyze its needs and put together a request for proposals. Part of the work involved analyzing the efficiencies of the two-site, 19-physician practice by mapping the practice's information infrastructure and the flow of data.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 01/02/02
Critics line up to fight legislation cutting access to autopsy records
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan02/9481.asp

by Amy Rinard
Proposed legislation that would severely limit public access to autopsy records would have "disastrous consequences in inhibiting the release of information," Milwaukee County Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen said.
Based largely on Jentzen's advice, the Milwaukee County Board recently went on record opposing the legislative proposal that would prohibit access by the public and the news media to autopsy records without permission of the deceased's next of kin.



Washington Post 01/02/02
Md. finishes 4th in study of states' technology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49764-2002Jan1.html

by Cynthia L. Webb
Maryland ranked fourth in a national survey to be released today that gauges how well state governments use the Internet and other digital technology to provide help and services to residents.



New York Times 01/02/02
New technology targets visa fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-US-Visa-Fraud.html

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is developing a plan to use digitized photos to help cut down on visa fraud at U.S. points of entry, officials said Wednesday.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/02/02
Paperwork to ease for medical offices
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBJXB3HYVC.html

by Tammie Smith
By October 2003, doctors' offices and health insurers will have to use standardized codes and formats when filing insurance forms electronically, a move expected to save on administrative costs.
That federal mandate, which will bring consistency to an area in which there is currently wide variance, can't come soon enough for some local doctors' offices, which are taking interim steps to deal with the paperwork clogging their offices.



Austin American-Statesman 01/02/02
Medical privacy legal battle revs up in Houston
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/wednesday/metro_state_12.html

HOUSTON -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has filed a motion to dismiss a suit by a physicians group and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Surfside, seeking to overturn medical privacy regulations as unconsti- tutional.
Paul and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Inc. have until Jan. 11 to respond to the motion.



The CEO Refresher 01/02/02
Risk Management in the Digital Age
http://www.refresher.com/!digitalage.html

by Rick Davis
Introduction
Digital risk management is about re-defining corporate governance to meet the new demands facing electronic business. New regulations and recently updated Federal Sentencing Guidelines create mandatory corporate governance environments where business leaders are potentially held personally responsible for privacy and information security violations that occur on their watch.



PRNewswire 01/02/02
HIPAAdocs provides free application for the healthcare industry to comply with federal regulations
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020102/phw003_1.html

COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- New federal legislation requires virtually all entities covered by HIPAA that will not be compliant with the transaction standards by the October 16, 2002 deadline to file a compliance plan with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Entities that are not in compliance by the original date or do not submit a compliance plan may, at the discretion of the Secretary of HHS, be excluded from the Medicare system.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va