Hi Bill. The following link might be appropriate for ftp-based messaging solutions:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1046134538/index_html TITLE: "... and open-source Electronic Data Interchange" NOTES: -"... SolAce Server was designed to do reliable, secure messaging in compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule ..." -written in Java -Thomas Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Walton" <[email protected]> To: <openehr-technical at openehr.org>; "Thomas Beale" <thomas at deepthought.com.au> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Access controls and Audit trails (was Re: openEHR security) > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Beale wrote: > > > > Bill Walton wrote: > > > > > > > > BW: Further, it looks like the EHR access history should include > > > reads as well as writes. That way, the trail would lead to the > > > providers that have, with permission, made copies of the EHR within > > > their own systems. > > > > > > > SH: True - it will only be able to be stored as an HTML rendition > > > unless there is an extract in openEHR - but you are right - this could > > > be saved - this is difficult to police. > > > > > > Oops! I'd assumed there would be extracts in openEHR. HIPAA > > > specifies, under the Transaction Rules that go into effect in October > > > of this year, a number of EDI transactions between systems that would > > > require this. HTML will not be sufficient. > > > > Can anyone clarify this bit of the debate - I have lost track of what is > > being said here! > > I was inquiring about the audit trail capabilities intended to be > incorporated in v1.0 of openEHR and Sam was very graciously trying to > enlighten me. His commment re: HTML made me expand the question to > extracts. I'm not sure I was sufficiently clear about my line of > questioning, and comments by others make me wonder whether or not I should > take this off-line. I am specifically trying to ascertain the applicability > of openEHR to the emerging requirements here in the U.S. and do not wish to > infringe on the group's bandwidth if there is a less intrusive way to handle > my questions. Please let me know how you'd like me to proceed. And thank > you all for your patience to date. > > Best regards, > Bill > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

