Category: IT
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IT, HIPAA, and the Medical Sole Practitioner
It is rare today to encounter a physician working as a sole practitioner. Between dealing with insurance companies, reimbursement rates, hospital privileges, and myriad regulatory requirements, the sole practitioner, we could say, is a critically endangered species. And yet last week I had a conversation with such a doctor working as a sole practitoner. He…
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I Hate Email!
Background The other day I posted about 1980s technology. Today I am going to expand a bit on that to give you an idea where things were and where things stand now. The technology in question is email (or, as we used to write it, “e-mail”). Email had been around since the 1970s, but really…